The closest I can find is I decided to go away from forum - #35 by waddlesplash
I cannot find anything on the mailing list. As you say in the next sentence, there was at some point some discussion “behind the scenes”. We do that to avoid the embarassment of starting a public discussion (mailing list or even worse, the forum with hundred of users) and then having people voice concerns publicly, which is not great either. Is there a correct solution here? So that’s why these things are discussed in private first.
Also, I did not reject anything on my own, I voiced my opinion and concerns about your contributions at the time (probably about the RISC-V port). These concerns would not block your application, and if other people don’t agree with my too strict opinion, either they would convince me, or there would be a vote on the mailing list and I’d lose it.
Also, you reduce it to “coding style”, but my concern was more that you sent a lot of code for the RISC-V port that required a lot of subsequent refactoring and cleanup, allowing the changes to benefit other parts of Haiku. Indeed I think some of these changes are not quite done yet (and are not easy to do), such as the PCI initialization and resource allocation which we recently discussed. I also understand that we have different approaches to things and yours is not worse than mine, just different. I hope I can be open about that and we are not in a place where being critical of other people is disallowed. Because that’s how I learn things: by people pointing out my mistakes.
Things have moved on since then, and my “maybe not yet” concern from 5+ years ago is now obsolete, as a lot of the communication difficulties have been resolved, both on a human level (we know and understand each other better ow than then, I think) and on the technical level (at the time you didn’t really want to get into mailing lists which were still used to run the project, now it looks like pretty much everything moved to the forum and the mailing list is mostly unused).
You would not be the first person to whom this happened. Indeed, waddlesplash got rejected several times before he was granted commit access.