Apache is not designed to handle accusations of a history of behavior of poor opinions when driving code forward in any meaningful way.
Instead we have technical discussions per issue and the power of the veto. The threat that we should just to work together rather than attacking one another. Some people may want to plow forward in any given area at any given time. And it's great when progress happens. But we have given dozens of people the power of veto, and that's pretty much the rules. If it acts as a brake sometimes, IMO, that is exactly the design. A lot of people here like to think they know what should happen despite opposing views. I think our system is designed with the understanding the truth is often in the middle. Discussion and veto power are not attached to activity either. If someone wants to participate on a JIRA issue, they are in the club, regardless of how they choose to develop. It's like a political system. Choose deadlock or consensus, and stop worrying about opposing conspiracy theories. True or not means little in how things are decided. I can nitpick on a lot of the choices and motivations of a lot of people here. But it would be useless for forward progress (detrimental even) and perpetuate what has been a huge culture decline in these projects. - Mark On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:22 PM Yonik Seeley <[email protected]> wrote: > (splitting this off) > > > Your threat to veto the original addition of Uwe's NumericFields to > > Lucene's core stands out in my (long) memory as another. > > ??? I seriously question that long memory. Or perhaps just the color > of the glasses you're viewing the world through. > > I fee like I helped develop NumericField (although Uwe was the primary > author)! IIRC, I wrote the first draft of the code that enabled > variable precision steps. > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1470?focusedCommentId=12671495&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-12671495 > > http://markmail.org/message/vcwwxwciwf7ztrfg > > And this is the JIRA issue to actually move it to core... all I > remember is an honest technical opinion about if it should be baked > into the index format (and certainly no vetoes or even opinions > against it being in "core"): > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1673 > > > Luckily, I'm in good company... I'm not the only person to be accused > of nefariously obstructing Lucene and only participating in Lucene > issues to slow it down or make it harder to use. > If one looks hard enough for something, they will start seeing it. > > -Yonik > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- - Mark about.me/markrmiller
