[coreboot] Open source project, braindead "leaders"

Tiago Marques tiagomnm at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 17:45:54 CEST 2009


Hi all,
Maybe an hacker of some sort? Definitely a strange/derranged behavior.
Best regards

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:23 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

> here is the sum total of the messages I have from ionnas (none from
> his brother).
> ===============
>
> Ioannis Barkas
>  to me
>
> show details 12/19/07
> Reply
>
>        Follow up message
> Hello I would like to add some controllers without USB
> debug port at:
> http://www.linuxbios.org/EHCI_Debug_Port
> , so I will need an account!
>
> Imagine a world without AMI and Phoenix BIOSes...
> =================================
> and I said:
> ron minnich
>  to Ioannis
>
> show details 12/20/07
>
>
> Reply
>
>        Follow up message
> can you tell me a bit more?
>
> Thanks
>
> ron
>
> =================================
> and he said:
>
> Ioannis Barkas
>  to me
>
> show details 12/21/07
>
>
> Reply
>
>        Follow up message
> Hello, thanks for your reply.
>
> I want to add a NEC PCI card and a chipset without
> debug port...
> ===============================================
> And I said:
>
> show details 12/25/07
>
>
> Reply
>
>        Follow up message
> On Dec 21, 2007 3:35 AM, Ioannis Barkas <risc4all at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello, thanks for your reply.
> >
> > I want to add a NEC PCI card and a chipset without
> > debug port...
> >
>
> So what do you need again?
>
> thanks
>
> ron
> =================================================
>
>
> And they said nothing more until june 12, 1.5 years later.
>
> Note that there is nothing of any specificity in his note, no
> indication that he has a clue as to what is on the web page or even
> what chipset he is talking about. NEC PCI card? eh? What kind of card?
> Chipset? Eh? what chipset? Why is he not more informative?
>
> Sorry, but we can't just let anyone just come in and get a wiki
> account. And, more to the point, they don't need it to add a NEC PCI
> card. Still worse, they don't seem to understand that adding a new
> chipset to the source code repo doesn't require a wiki account --
> despite this very nice top level link written some years ago:
> http://www.coreboot.org/Development_Guidelines
>
> Now, finally, 1.5 years later we get a patch, which is fine, but it
> comes with lots of whining and lots of unsubstantiated claims. 30
> mainboards? These guys have more than I ever had, and I worked at a
> money-filled DOE Lab!
>
> Sorry, but every open source project has a high hurdle to newcomers
> for a reason. If they wish to come back and talk to us minus the
> insults, I am happy to have them back. But their current behaviour is
> completely unacceptable.
>
> Thanks
>
> ron
>
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