Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove Sven Eckelmann from BATMAN ADVANCED

On Tuesday 21 June 2011 14:35:15 David Miller wrote:

From: Sven Eckelmann <redacted>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:13:03 +0200

quoted

I cannot speak on behalf of the batman-adv developers due to conflicts
in the opinion about the ongoing development. The batman-adv module is
still maintained by Marek Lindner and Simon Wunderlich. Those are the
main persons behind the visions of batman-adv. Therefore, the state of
module hasn't changed.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <redacted>
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n-ZwoEplunGu2X36UT3dwllkB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org

You have to be kidding me.

Thanks for the warm welcome :)

All of this effort was placed to get this thing merged into the
main tree, and then moved out of staging.

"Shooting the messenger" - I think that is the matching phrase. Just try to 
grep my name in the net/batman-adv/ and you will see it nowhere. The problem 
is that I am probably the most unimportant person in the whole project. But at 
least I was good enough to send some patches around which were accepted or 
made by other people. I was also not the person behind the whole Linux-merge 
thing, but only some kind of marionette.

And now you're just going to give up and jump ship and take exactly
zero responsibility for that burdon you've placed upon us?

This is your interpretation. I would say that I don't take zero responsibility 
for the stuff which is not yet part of the tree (of course still take 
responsibilities for the stuff with my name in it). I never said that 
completely run away, but that I am no longer the person which is send to the 
enemy general to bring bad news. Desertion to the enemy or bringing bad news - 
the end result for me is the same.

At least I tried to only do only one step backwards instead of running 
silently away in the night never to be seen again.

You make me feel like a real idiot for sticking around and maintaining
the Linux networking for more than 15 years.  Maybe 13 years ago I
should have stepped down just because I disagreed with a few other
people.

Sry, never wanted to say that it is bad to disagree with other people or that 
you are a bad person/maintainer.

Disagreeing with everyone else and pushing your opinion until the end against 
anybody makes the person a dictator (could be a good or bad one). Disagreeing 
with everyone and not being man enough to stand for it makes me a moron.

Maybe I am an incompetent idiot, but at least this time I stand behind my 
opinion. Please think everything bad about me, but not that I didn't try to 
explain my position instead of going into stealth mode (which would have been 
a lot easier solution).

thanks,
	Sven