Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Jul 2002 10:36:20 +0200 | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Give Bartlomiej a break! (Re: Impressions of IDE 98?) |
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At 10:23 AM 7/21/2002 +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > >On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > >> Since I know spit about IDE/ATA/ATAPI/SCSI, I'll keep my mouth shut and > > >> leave judgement/"voting" to those who fully understand the technical > > >issues. > > > > > >You probably shouldn't. Technical decisions should be made by technicians, > > >but decisions about the technicians should be made by the human resources > > >dept., and since we claim to be a constitutional monarchy, we might try > > >out a democratic decision... > > > > No, I'm absolutely sure I'm doing the right thing. > >Well you don't necessarily have to be an IDE guru to realize something's >wrong when you see a bloke constantly breaking the subsystem, practically >never fixing it up himself, disappearing for a month w/o saying a word >after having fried 2.5.25 completely and not really caring about what >others have to say about the code.
No, you don't have to be a guru to notice that the rewrite is proving difficult.
>And you've noticed the IDE 2.4 forward-port, right?
Yes. I also read Jens stated reasons for doing the port.. made perfect sense.
-Mike
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