Before this gets out of hand... [LWN.net]

Before this gets out of hand...

Posted Nov 19, 2003 21:27 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Before this gets out of hand... by piman
Parent article: Thomas Bushnell is no longer Hurd maintainer

Sorry, I've confused the thread with my comment. I was trying to address multiple comments in a rush as my dinner was getting cold :-)

There were many speculative comments flying around. This of course was not helped by the incorrect title to this article. Thomas has not been removed from development. He has had the title of "maintainer" taken from him. This is a fairly meaningless title anyway, nothing like the Debian "developer" title. (But I don't agree with Richards reasons for removing it.)

Yes, we should point out where Stallman makes mistakes, but too many (other) people take too much pride in being able to point out a flaw in this man.

> > But remember that you're only hearing one side of this story

This started as a private conversation between RMS and Thomas. I think it's okay for people to have private conversations.

(Thomas then posted the conclusion to a private mailing list for discussion, and a member of that list posted it to a public list, and a member of the public list posted it to LWN, and LWN published it without checking the details)

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Before this gets out of hand...

Posted Nov 20, 2003 1:36 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

The title of this article is currently:

"Thomas Bushnell is no longer Hurd maintainer"

How is that incorrect or misleading?

As for the body, I suppose it could be wrong that he is no longer the
architect of the project. If that's incorrect please say so clearly and
I'm sure the LWN editors will correct it.

Before this gets out of hand...

Posted Nov 20, 2003 1:40 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

I did change the title, mostly because I thought the new one fit better into the weekly edition, which will be out shortly. That was probably a mistake; we try to avoid substantive changes after we put something up.

The old title was "Thomas Bushnell removed from Hurd development."