RE: Discussing issues

> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Vojkovich
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Kendall Bennett wrote: Seriously now, exactly
what
> > demands have Keith, Jim et al been putting on you such that you feel
they
> > are trying to force you to work on things for them? My understanding
from
> > the outside looking in, is that all this started because Keith
wanted more
> > flexibility in being able to work on projects himself that *he* or
*his
> > employer* felt were important.  Specifically (I assume from what
limited
> > information we have seen of the internal discussions) his own CVS
tree
> > with the ability to merge stuff into the mainline tree easily.
Nowhere
> > have I seen any evidence of Keith wishing to become a dictator and
> > forcibly control what other XFree86 developers have to work on!
> > 
> 
>    Kendall, you don't know what's going on.
> 
> 
> 			Mark.

Mark is right.  He, David and other
XFree86 people base their comments on
experience.

I personally took the time to visit
Keith ten years ago at the X
Consortium and the result was XFree86
was stonewalled completely.  And here
we continue to waste weeks resolving
Keith's needs, while he has yet to
talk directly to the core team about
the issues, whatever they are.

Furthermore, while Keith was on the
core team he failed to form any
working relationships.  He could not
recognize release engineering
priorities, and could not recognize
or resolve differences between
observations and his statements.

I have a theory.  Keith is very well
respected by some, and believes that
he and Jim should mentor these
projects, based on their talks at
Usenix stating that various projects
should seek the advice of
self-proclaimed "grey beards".  Since
they see themselves as superior
mentors, perhaps they cannot treat
other developers as equal.  This may
not be true, but it is consistent with
observations.

Cheers,
Rich


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