[Openchrome-devel] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Correcting some comments I made about Xavier Bachelot and OpenChrome patch review process

[Mario Rugiero]

As pointed out, I disappeared in the void. I was waiting for an answer from
more experienced kernel developers in the linuxdriverproject.org list and
the dri-devel list (the latter never arrived, without even a failed
delivery notice, so I resent it to the maintainer) regarding some doubts on
a proposed roadmap. Nobody answered, and it was too easy for me to
procrastinate "waiting for that answer".
I have finals for the following weeks, so I won't be really active, but I'm
still interested in contributing, although I have serious doubts I'll be
needed. I mostly offered my help because nobody else seemed interested in
working for it at the time.
If you have any tasks for somebody relatively new to graphics drivers
programming, just let me know.

Cheers,
Mario.

2016-04-07 23:07 GMT-03:00 Kevin Brace <kevinbrace at gmx.com>:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I will like to offer a correction regarding several comments I made about
> Xavier Bachelot who has been a long time project maintainer for OpenChrome
> project.
> I made several comments on this mailing list (openchrome-devel mailing
> list), possibly on the sister mailing list (openchrome-users mailing list),
> and on bugs.freedesktop.org that I felt ignored by Xavier for a very long
> period (i.e., from October 2015 until March 2016), and implied that he was
> an irresponsible person who abandoned the OpenChrome project for many
> months, only to return recently.
> Benno Schulenberg brought to my attention that Xavier did send me an
> e-mail to him, James Simmons (another project maintainer who has since
> disappeared), another potential developer (who has since disappeared as
> well), and me on January 2nd, 2016.
> I have known the existence of this e-mail to some extent from January 2016
> since I saw the portion Benno was quoting (I received that e-mail from
> Benno.), but since I mistakenly assumed that Xavier did not send the
> original e-mail in question to me (but assumed that it was sent to Benno,
> James, and another potential developer only), I felt excluded back then.
> I did go back to my gmx.com e-mail account, and searched e-mails from
> Xavier, and it turns out Xavier did indeed send the very original e-mail in
> question on January 2nd, 2016.
> Xavier asked for non-disclosure of the contents of the e-mail, so I will
> not discuss what was discussed in it.
> In retrospect (after I found the unread e-mail in question today), he had
> a very valid reason why he was not able to communicate with me for a long
> time, and I definitely accept that as a valid reason why he did not reply
> to my e-mails.
> Please do not ask or speculate about what was said in the e-mail.
> I regret this error, and apologize to Xavier Bachelot for potentially
> ruining his reputation.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kevin Brace
> OpenChrome Project Maintainer
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