netdev - Re: pull request: wireless-next-2.6 2009-10-28

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Message-Id: <200911042217.49144.IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:17:48 +0100
From:	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@...il.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-next-2.6 2009-10-28

On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > > I've searched on my GMail archives and the only patch Bart has
> > > provided so far for the rt2x00 project is this:
> > > 
> > > [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: rt2x00 list is moderated
> > > 
> > > Which, while technically correct, adds nothing to the project.
> > > 
> > > So, I will personally continue to ignore Bart's comments, regards and
> > > rants, until he provides patches for rt2x00 that actually make the
> > > driver better.
> > 
> > Well, he provided review feedback... he should be thanked for that,
> > not flamed for it.
> 
> He has actually written real patches (and quite non-trivial both in amount 
> and in functionality), see
> 
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/3/372

Please look at the TIMESTAMP of the mail you refer to, and the TIMESTAMP
of the mail from Luis. And then you can make assumptions about the text...

> But yes, he got flamed for this for some odd reason. I got the impression 
> that the community around rt2x00 doesn't like (or understand) the way how 
> opensource development happens.

Well you mean the open source development where non-contributors
complain that the contributors work too slowly? Well if that is the way
things should go, then I don't want to be part of such idiocy. Perhaps
that is the policy in some companies which try to import it into the
Open Source world...

Ivo
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