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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 10:36:20 +0200
To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Give Bartlomiej a break!  (Re: Impressions of IDE 98?)
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At 10:23 AM 7/21/2002 +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > >On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > >You probably shouldn't. Technical decisions should be made by technicians,
> > >but decisions about the technicians should be made by the human resources
> > >dept., and since we claim to be a constitutional monarchy, we might try
> > >out a democratic decision...
> >
> > No, I'm absolutely sure I'm doing the right thing.
>
>Well you don't necessarily have to be an IDE guru to realize something's
>wrong when you see a bloke constantly breaking the subsystem, practically
>never fixing it up himself, disappearing for a month w/o saying a word
>after having fried 2.5.25 completely and not really caring about what
>others have to say about the code.

No, you don't have to be a guru to notice that the rewrite is proving 
difficult.

>And you've noticed the IDE 2.4 forward-port, right?

Yes.  I also read Jens stated reasons for doing the port.. made perfect sense.

         -Mike

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