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On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:22:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The reason why people do not express their disquiet is very plain - any
> time anyone dares comes out, they promptly get their head kicked in.

In the "let's be fair" department, it's obvious that there is enough 
head kicking to go around on all sides, right?  No answer needed...

> So.  Life goes on.  We will have regular bitkeeper flamewars, and
> that's a good thing - it reminds everyone that there are different
> opinions and different work practices which need to be accommodated.

If Daniel had started out this thread with

    Hey, I've noticed that the BK patches aren't getting as much review
    or notification on the lk list, is there something we can do about
    that?

He would have gotten a useful answer in a few minutes, and we would have
moved on.
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