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Did you read the article? She says she was a committer. > Eventually, with the help of the dev community answering some of my basic questions and with Colin r
by dietrichepp 11y ago
Did you read the article? She says she was a committer.
> Eventually, with the help of the dev community answering some of my basic questions and with Colin reviewing my code, I finally found my place in the project. I was still a senior sysadmin, but I got really angry because I couldn’t install FreeBSD from a usb thumbdrive. This seemed so easy. So, I drank some scotch (probably too much scotch) and started digging through sysinstall code. I didn’t really know C at that point. I learned C just so I could fix that. Then I started working on a few other things with sysinstall, like autodetection of network devices that have an active link.
- VLM 11y agoIts unfortunate the question was flagged. For example lets say Don Armstrong from Debian retired; he's done an excellent job at a stressful job but all jobs eventually end of course. You could look at the Debian wiki and say, OK we need to recruit qty one listmaster team member and you can use DDPO to look up a list of packages he maintained and someone needs to look after his former pkgs X Y and Z, etc. Debian carefully documents all delegations on the wiki and there's a bazillion automated tools to track. Presumably freebsd has something... something containing whatever Randi had ongoing responsibility over or was currently in process. That would certainly provide a measurable documentable level of damage (... X and Y will be delayed by an unknown period and Z is now not being looked at)
- Amezarak 11y agoAt least according to alleged FreeBSD developers on Reddit, she hasn't committed any code in three years and wasn't responsible for anything.