Re: [ros-dev] when will I return Magnus Olsen aka GreatLord

[James Tabor]

Hi!
No, not happy~!

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)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