linux-kernel - Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

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Message-ID: <4635D139.4030609@aitel.hist.no>
Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:21:29 +0200
From:	Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@...el.hist.no>
To:	Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@....de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and	pseudo-authorities

Uwe Bugla wrote:
> In this ten Emails you will yourself see the intellectual and technical proof in how far Mr. Chehab is acting with nothing else but:
>
> a. Lies
> b. Unproven thesis
> c. Stigmatizations
>
> and so on.
>
> THIS MAN HAS NO IDEA, BUT HE HAS THE POWER!
>   
Please note that there are ways to replace a bad maintainer. 
We still try to keep it polite.

But note that you can't have someone "fired", no matter how bad they
do their job.  A bad maintainer is usually better than none - the bad
maintainer might improve. Or at least get some simple stuff done.

You therefore replace a bad maintainer by taking over the position. 
Contact whoever is above the maintainer (Linus or some other
higher-level maintainer). You explain the problem, and you must also
show that you have the time and knowledge to do a better job. 
You can, for example, maintain the same subsystem in parallel.  After a 
while,
all interested parties sees that your tree works better and that
communicating with you is easier.
If you aren't prepared to do this - then you have to live with the current
maintainer.  There is no staff ready to replace maintainers after
complaints, a volunteer doing a better job is always necessary.

Helge Hafting

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