Re: reiser4 inclusion?

[Christian Stroetmann OntoLab <stroetmann@ontolab.com>]

Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
> On Samstag 25 April 2009, you wrote:
>   
>> Dear Volker Armin,
>>
>>     
>>> On Samstag 25 April 2009, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Edward,
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Please,
>>>>> don't flood in this mailing list.
>>>>> Go away!
>>>>>           
>>>> You are totally out of line here.
>>>>
>>>> First, please following mailing list etiquette and don't top post
>>>>         
>>> it is pretty much his mailing list.
>>>       
>> And what?
>>     
>
> his mailing list his rules.
Ah, really? Every day, there is something new to learn.
>  Also it is very impolite attacking people on their 
> own ml for breaking netiquette. Oh wait - it is impolite to attack people on 
> mailing lists for breaking netiquette - that is a break of it.
???
>  
>
>   
>>>> Second, Christian, like all others, have a right to post here. You may
>>>> not agree with his posts (or what he is doing with OntoFS), but that
>>>> does not give you the right to tell him to go away.
>>>>         
>>> yes, it does. Just look at the archives.
>>>       
>> Ah, what?
>>
>>     
>>>> Third, if the community only relied on you to progress reiserfs, it
>>>> has been years at this point and nothing significant. it is basically
>>>> somewhat dead.
>>>>         
>>> reiserfs is in  maintenance mode - there aren't much changes. In fact,
>>> less changes is a good thing.
>>>
>>> Edward is also pretty much the last person working on reiser4. You are
>>> attacking him, but I don't see patches from you. Gives someone something
>>> to think about.
>>>       
>> Yes, but not in the sense you want us to direct to.
>>     
>
> hm, what do you want people to think? 
> When was the last time ontolabs sent patches to lkml for review or mm 
> inclusion?
> Attacking Edward on the ml for being stubborn or not working enough doesn't 
> make you look good at all. Especially if he just acked a couple of patches a 
> few days ago and uploaded a patch for 2.6.29 shortly after its release.
>   
Sorry, but once again You haven't caught the real problem.
>
>   
>>> look at the archives. Edward has good reasons to feel ripped of.
>>> Maybe it is all a big miscommunication. But that isn't solved when
>>> ontolabs guys agressively advertise for themselves.
>>>       
>> It is no agressive advertisment by us. It is standard communication in
>> an open source mailing list.
>>     
>
> from my POV it looks like agressive advertisement. If it is not intended that 
> way, structure and wording needs a lot of improvement.
Luckily you are not the owner of the mailing-list

Regards
C. Stroetmann