Hi Hans, On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:40:54 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > > I am resigning from my role as hardware monitoring subsystem > > (drivers/hwmon) maintainer. This is too much work for me, I do not have > > the necessary bandwidth to review all the incoming patches, in > > particular new drivers, in a timely manner. Patch authors have been > > complaining about this repeatedly. This is no fun for them, and even > > less for me, so I'd rather let someone else with more spare time take > > care of it. If there are volunteers, this is the right time to speak up. > > I'm sorry to hear this and I can't help but think that my, erm, rant* yesterday > is somehow involved in you making this decision. Obviously, it is. But please don't feel responsible for it. This just happened to be the trigger, but that would have happened anyway. > This was in no way my intention. I know. > My intention was to try and make you change how you handle these things, Except that this isn't how open-source development works. You're not my boss, you don't get to tell me how I should work. I work the way I like, and if it doesn't fit with the rest of the community, I better move on. > my intention was to make you less of a perfectionist and to distribute > the work more, you cannot do everything yourself. I think that if you could > change that you would be able to cope with the load better. Perfectionist - you said it. This is what I am, and this is unlikely to change in a near future (if ever). But being a subsystem maintainer requires that you trust contributors to some degree, and you just can't trust contributors when you're a perfectionist. This means that the maintainer should be less of a perfectionist than the contributors, otherwise he/she ends up doing everything by him/herself. > I think you're experience / knowledge when it comes to hwmon stuff is very > valuable and if you leave / quit doing hwmon stuff this would be a big loose. I didn't say I would leave entirely. I plan to stay around and keep helping with the lm-sensors project and hwmon drivers. I just don't want to be the hwmon subsystem maintainer anymore, as I don't fit in the role and this makes me (and others) unhappy. -- Jean Delvare
