[ros-dev] when will I return Magnus Olsen aka GreatLord

[James Tabor]

Hi!
No, not happy~!

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Alex Ionescu <ionucu at videotron.ca> wrote:
> Man, I wonder where you guys were when I was getting shit for breaking
> the kernel due to *valid* changes.... and cooperating.
>
LOL! I was there giving you a hard time on IRC.. See,,, I understand
where you are going with the changes so I did not go out of my way to
kill your access to the project. The outcomes in the future out weight
the short term. That was 2006, now we see~

> I love Greatlord but, it's not the fact he's breaking stuff that I
> think Aleksey is tired off... it's breaking stuff, promising to
> change, and then still break stuff. Looking over commits, I don't
> think anyone has broken the OS more than Greatlord except myself. I
> also don't think anyone has committed more code than myself (And
> probably w3seek). So yes, there does seem to be a valid proportion.
> Both greatlord and I were massive regressors, but also massive
> changers... that doesn't make it RIGHT though. It was probably wrong
> even during my time... I can't get away by saying "ah yes, but my
> changes were correct!!!!". So I will probably say that lenience was
> given to me (not always though, I did get into some pretty big
> fights)...
>
For some reason he started committing on anger and stop testing the
changes. Before I could stop him it was all done. Afterward he left
IRC and was off line for awhile. So things stayed broken and I could
not go fix it, since I was called in to work that day.

> Greatlord's breakage of the trunk, although proportional to his
> commits, reflects a bigger problem -- your development model SUCKS,
> and you need to fix it. So I don't think Aleksey is being -unfair-...
> I think he's incorrectly attacking the person who "abused" the relaxed
> rules the most... what he should REALLY fix is the rules themselves,
> because any other dev in Greatlord's position would've probably acted
> the same. Greatlord is just being the scapegoat.
>
I like Magnus and he has become a good friend and project colleague.
I've broken my share too and I always, oneway or another come around
to fixing them.
The spelling thing does come off as a bit raciest. Due to my relapse
into predictive programming.
The development model? I'm to busy to worry ATM.
James