[illumos-Discuss] gdamore wishes he knew what would motivate more developers to work on illumos bugs....

[Gleb Kursou]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Bryan Cantrill <bryancantrill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Gleb Kursou <kursou.gleb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Forwarded conversation
>> Subject: gdamore wishes he knew what would motivate more developers to
>> work on illumos bugs....
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>> From: Gleb Kursou <kursou.gleb at gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:24 PM
>> To: discuss at lists.illumos.org, opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org
>> Cc: garrett at damore.org
>>
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>> Garrett, so you asked this question: "gdamore wishes he knew what
>> would motivate more developers to work on illumos bugs...."
>>
>> I keep it short - and public - to start a discussion about how the
>> Illumos gate should be managed. I - and many other people - think the
>> biggest problem is *your* own behavior. This can be solved but
>> requires a huge leap from you *first*. You need to work on your
>> behavior towards people.
>
> Actually, Adam Leventhal (Delphix) and I each (separately) gave
> answers to this question on behalf of our organizations -- and the
> reason that we haven't contributed has to do much more with the fact
> that our teams are still ramping up, and not at all with Garrett's
> style. Further, I don't find your tone to be at all productive; if you
> have such strong disagreements with illumos, start your own fork -- if
> you're right, people will follow you. But for the sake of those of us
> who spend their days building upon this system, please focus your
> energies on the technology and not on unnecessary flame wars...

Bryan, I am not interested in a flame war. I am interested in helping
Garrett sorting out his problems and making Illumos a living, vibrant
project. There's been enough forking and disagreement. We need to
start to work together.

Gleb