Thorsten Scherler wrote:
El dom, 05-02-2006 a las 23:03 +0100, Michael Wechner escribió:
I think that's very valuable, but I would argue that you are
definitely
an exception (a very positive exception from my PoV :-), but
maybe I am wrong and the world is more altruistic than I think.
I consider myself as well as such an exception. ;-) I will not make a
list of things what I did/do (that is in the archive in different mls
and projects) but most things I do/did is solving not my problems but
from the community I am involved in.
So, yes, maybe you are wrong and the the world is more altruistic than
you think. ;-)
if, as an outsider to the problems being discussed, i may...:
i should say the particular part of the world that is apt to join
open-source projects is a lot more altruistic than michi seems to think. :-D
here's what i understood of this discussion (oh, and yes, my mum is a
betazoid):
phase 1: michi wants every formal community member to do their release
management chores and thinks people who are not willing should retire. a
reasonable opionion, although uncommon among other, less formally
structured open-source communities and hence subject to debate.
phase 2; he obviously trod on peoples feet when stating that, and
there's the fact that he is the original author, which obviously made
people take his words as a sort of "official statement", which he never
claimed.
phase 3a; then followed a little bitching back and forth, ending in a
constructive solution: the release management howto and the list of
volunteers.
phase 3b: more or less at the same time, antonio steps up as RM without
much fuss and calls a vote. my *guess* is that he was becoming irritated
by the rising tension and unfriendly undertone of the discussion and
wanted to shut people down for a while.
phase 4: everybody is happy except michi, which is understandable, since
his original point had been completely lost. however, the latest mails
on that topic seem profoundly non-relaxed and it's hard for me to
extract the important points among all the heat.
now, could everyone involved get themselves a coffee and some fresh air?
antonio is willing to start with the job, that takes a lot of the
pressure away. with some time gained thus, why not just discuss and
eventually vote on linking committer status with the willingness to do a
release?
shutting up now,
jörn
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Universität Duisburg-Essen, Standort Duisburg
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