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Subject: Re: Give Bartlomiej a break!  (Re: Impressions of IDE 98?)
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At 12:14 AM 7/21/2002 -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > > Give Bartlomiej a break!
> >
> > Hmm? I was pointing my finger at Martin, not Bart.
>
>I guess he meant "a start".
>
> > o  He has exhibited understanding of the subtleties of the IDE code --
> >       unlike MD.
> > o  He doesn't have a conflicting/macho personality -- unlike MD.
> > o  He actually knows what has to be done and has planned out a long-term
> >       schedule -- unlike MD.
>
>Whatever, I think there are some problems with the current IDE
>development. Martin is possibly a good developer, but he doesn't always
>seem all that experienced regarding IDE. Also, he releases too many testal
>patches which simply aren't going to work. Unfortunately, Linus ate them
>at once, so we sometimes had deadly situations.
>
>These facts make me think that Martin is probably not the best maintainer
>for it. He might be a good developer - whatever -, but what is worth, he's
>certainly not the best one when it comes to planning. Thus, I think the
>question is: will it be better for IDE if Martin has the lead, current
>situation, or if Martin can unfold all his powerfulness in testing while
>someone else takes up the pieces and makes IDE of it, planning what comes
>next?
>
>I'm not proposing a Martin Dalecki frontend, I'm just propagating an
>election.

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.

         -Mike


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