On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:39:58PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Hello. > > I've read (a part of) resent kernel ITP flamewar.
You should have kept the Subject and the CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED], otherwise your message is not properly archived in the discussion. > The more I read, the more it frightens me. > Seems that someone without any sort of complete knowledge of the problem, > decided to maintain one of the most important parts of the system. And the > way he chooses is "removing everything that I don't undestand". This looks > like a disaster. It's you who hasn't a clear view of the situation. I understand perfectly what the problems are. Some of these "problems" are not really problems but extra features I don't intend to support. Other "problems" are actualy upstream bugs by not integrating support for all architectures in mainline. Some people pretend that, in order to reestructure the package, I have to solve all the problems that have been attached to it in the last few years. But I don't have to. > Please please please don't go the Windows way - "let's make it usable for > dummies at the price of making it hardly usable by experts"! > The saying is: "Create a system that is usable even by idiots, and only > idiots will use it". I made the package in the way I found most consistent and easy to understand, for users and for developers. You're calling me idiot by saying that, so I'll stop here. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
