Re: [PATCH] Split of the normal mode

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>]

Here I must comment that in some cases it is favorable to do it this
way. I personally will only commit changes that I am happy to live with.
Even if you are developer with SVN commit rights it is in some cases
good idea to have general review of the patch... but there has been some
lack of the time from people to review them (and it does not cross
everyones interest zones, thus get attention to the patch).

phcoder wrote:
> 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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