Hi Andreas, It is so sad to hear this, I know you contributed a lot and helped to move the project forward. When we implement a feature we can not consider all the projects using it. Just think one more time, we really need your help ....., I really value your contribution.
Thanks, Deepal > reduce my activity in the Axis2 project. Over the last months I have > worked primarily on JIRA issues and on improving the test suites of > SAAJ and ADB [1]. This work has put me in the line of fire of people > who are not willing or not able to let a discussion occur in a > constructive way. Considering that I dedicate some of my free time to > do this and that my professional life is already stressful enough, I > can live very well without this. Doing the dirty job of fixing bugs is > simply not worth it under these conditions. > > The fact is that in AXIS2-4465, I have implemented a fix that > inadvertently removed a public method and causing a subtle issue in a > dependent project. I have been immediately accused of drastic and > deliberate changes to public APIs and these accusations went as far as > talking about "merrily chang[ing] APIs" and "things are going to > become a big mess". In addition these accusations have been put > forward while being vague on the exact issue that the fix caused (the > complete information about this was only disclosed in the 35th post in > this thread). This caused the discussion to quickly degrade instead of > remaining focused on the facts and drawing the conclusions after > analyzing those facts. Furthermore, in another thread, my fix in > AXIS2-4465 has been implicitly put on a level with a proposed > modification that would change the deployment subsystem, dispatchers > and transports. I think that all this goes way beyond legitimate > criticism and also way beyond what one would expect in a constructive > discussion. > > Note that I am not resigning from the Axis2 project; I will just shift > priorities. > > Andreas > > [1] > http://svnsearch.org/svnsearch/repos/ASF/search?path=%2Fwebservices%2Faxis2%2Ftrunk%2Fjava&author=veithen > > -- Thank you! http://blogs.deepal.org http://deepal.org
