right to criticize other people's volunteer work

[Florent Thoumie]

On May 5, 2006, at 7:58 PM, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> п'ятниця 05 травень 2006 14:46, Kris Kennaway  
> написав:
>> And he's acknowledged the problem and is working on it at his own
>> pace..so again, you have options a), b), c) or the perhaps-mythical
>> d).
>
> According to the discussion, he is also working on the  
> restructuring of the
> ports for 7.0.
>
> Although this work may be benefitial for the quicker roll-out of  
> 7.1, I
> suggested -- in response to the direct solicitation of advice --  
> that some
> effort be directed towards support issues instead. That was the d) ...
>
> Now. I'll reiterate once again, that I strongly dislike your  
> reaction. I
> believe, criticism is Ok even in an all-volunteer project.

I think it's just the way you said it.

> It would be legitimate for you to defend the x11 team, but to deny  
> me any
> right to criticize at all, as you did with your: "Remind me again what
> obligation Eric has to fix your problem?" -- is WRONG.

Still it's volunteer work, just don't forget that.

As for fixing dri/drm problems instead of working on xorg 7.0, keep  
in mind that creating ports for xorg 7.0 doesn't require much  
knowledge where fixing actual bugs in dri/drm does. I'm trying to  
help Eric and Dejan on the xorg 7.0 side, but I'm not able to fix any  
bug in dri/drm.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer