Re: linux-arm-kernel useless for development (was Re: Your messageto Linux-arm-kernel awaits moderator approval)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Aug 14 2009 - 07:06:42 EST


On Thu 2009-08-06 12:55:53, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 01:02:47PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Thu 2009-08-06 11:44:21, Russell King wrote:
> >
> > > It appears the answer to that is no. People are free to subscribe to
> > > the one on vger, where they won't have to "put up" with me. However,
> > > it seems that people much prefer to subscribe to my lists, because that
> > > seems to be where the expertise is.
> > >
> > > Moreover,
> > >
> > > (a) when ever you have a problem, you go shouting and making public
> > > accusations without trying first to resolve the problem in private.
> >
> > When I tried asking in private, I was told to stop complaining or loose
> > my mailing list subscription. I'd prefer not to make that mistake again.
>
> ... in response to your whinging about the "headers matched a filter
> rule" mailman whining. I had enough of your whinging and whining in
> April, and I've certainly had enough now. But guess what? The
> problem eventually got fixed after working out what was going on.

So you are fixing problems with your mailing lists. Cool.

> > > I wonder, do you even know what happened to the message you're whinging
> > > about? Would you prefer that your message was silently dropped into
> > > /dev/null instead of having a chance of the issue being resolved? It
> > > strikes me that _that_ would be a better solution than all your
> > > whinging.
> >
> > So... your solution to broken mailing list is to silence everyone who
> > complains?
>
> No. My solution would have been to fix the mailing list had you not
> made this a public issue in an offensive way.

When I asked you privately last time, you threatened unsubscribing
me. I don't want to face that again, so yes I prefer public
communication.
Pavel
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