Jarek Poplawski wrote: > Hi Corey! > > I've just had a look at your site, and see you're a bit disappointed about > the reception of your patches here. I don't use nor know about your work > (maybe some time...), and wish you better public here, but maybe you'll > find this story interesting: a few years ago, when I didn't even think of > reading netdev, I quite often visited pages of such projects as HTB (not > in every distro yet), IMQ or Julian Anastasov's. They were quite popular > subjects on admins lists, and I really admired people around these > projects, while the main kernel was something big and anonymous (no idea > e.g. about D. Miller). For the same reason I knew more about people from > iptables project - only because there was a need to visit this for some > non standard modules, and about A. Kuznetsov - only because of patching > iproute for HTB!!! (Only later I found that Alexey did more than needed > for several such HTBs.) So, it seems there could be good side of such > unofficial status too - if you only have something really useful for > others...
Thank you for the words of encouragement, but don't worry: I'm not going to run away and hide just yet. :) I was a bit discouraged about not getting reviews for the more recent patch submissions, though, and I hope I don't come across as bitter about that. Patch review is a lot of work, and I definitely appreciate the comments I received earlier--I was able to make many improvements as a result. In any case, kernel development progresses, and I now have to update my patches so they can apply to current git. The ball has rolled back into my court of its own accord; perhaps the playing field isn't level. ;) -Corey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
