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Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode


From: phcoder
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:43:33 +0200
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I'm actually quite unhappy with the grub's authority in general. Some people can commit their patches after a week of no replies while others like me have to wait that someone has time to review their patches in depth. I already have a collection of patches that are not commited, not because someone objects against them but just because nobody qualified enough has time to review and commit it. All this despite having already signed copyright assignment which because of slowness of FSF took more time than it should. From developer viewpoint it's very frustrating experience. If I wasn't so motivated as I am I would have already given up. IMO opinion if we want people coding for grub2 this has to be changed. But now you come and say you want to revert some patches just because they seem useless to you or rewrite some code just because you find it ugly or because it has a minor bug which could be easily fixed without rewriting. IMO this can easily drive developers to fork or leave project altogether. And additionally your energy would be much better spent in writing new stuff and making/reviewing design propositions than rewriting chunks of already working code. Sorry for being somewhat rude but I really find it frustrating this coder-unfriendliness
In brief, I take back the leadership of this project for general directions. For some subsystems (e.g. the coreboot support), I continue leaving the responsibility to those who know better or are more active. Once the current code is reviewed and fixed (at some degree), I will make a new release.

Any objection?

Regards,
Okuji


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Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko




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