Hi! No, not happy~!
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Alex Ionescu ionucu@videotron.ca wrote:
Man, I wonder where you guys were when I was getting shit for breaking the kernel due to *valid* changes.... and cooperating.
LOL! I was there giving you a hard time on IRC.. See,,, I understand where you are going with the changes so I did not go out of my way to kill your access to the project. The outcomes in the future out weight the short term. That was 2006, now we see~
I love Greatlord but, it's not the fact he's breaking stuff that I think Aleksey is tired off... it's breaking stuff, promising to change, and then still break stuff. Looking over commits, I don't think anyone has broken the OS more than Greatlord except myself. I also don't think anyone has committed more code than myself (And probably w3seek). So yes, there does seem to be a valid proportion. Both greatlord and I were massive regressors, but also massive changers... that doesn't make it RIGHT though. It was probably wrong even during my time... I can't get away by saying "ah yes, but my changes were correct!!!!". So I will probably say that lenience was given to me (not always though, I did get into some pretty big fights)...
For some reason he started committing on anger and stop testing the changes. Before I could stop him it was all done. Afterward he left IRC and was off line for awhile. So things stayed broken and I could not go fix it, since I was called in to work that day.
Greatlord's breakage of the trunk, although proportional to his commits, reflects a bigger problem -- your development model SUCKS, and you need to fix it. So I don't think Aleksey is being -unfair-... I think he's incorrectly attacking the person who "abused" the relaxed rules the most... what he should REALLY fix is the rules themselves, because any other dev in Greatlord's position would've probably acted the same. Greatlord is just being the scapegoat.
I like Magnus and he has become a good friend and project colleague. I've broken my share too and I always, oneway or another come around to fixing them. The spelling thing does come off as a bit raciest. Due to my relapse into predictive programming. The development model? I'm to busy to worry ATM. James