Hi Pedro, I don't see anything "destructive" with Chris asking for justification for you calling something "hacky". The only email in this thread where I see ad hominems and disrespectful comments is your email.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2019, 10:18 PM Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apache mentors should have a look at these reincident harassment and > destructive behaviors which demotivate contributions and take action. It > takes only one bad apple to ruin a community. > > The mobile solution that is known to work as of know is cross compiling > with "ci/build.py -p build.android_armv8" or "build.android_armv7". The > only advantage of amalgamation is to provide a smaller binary that we could > accomplish with the C preprocessor. > > My technical contributions speak for themselves, including porting MXNet to > Android and ARM and helping many users run MXNet in Jetson, Raspberry Pi > and Android amongst many other topics. I have never been disrespectful to > anyone. I'm entitled to my own technical opinions about amalgamation or any > other piece of code whatsoever, that's no personal disrespect to anyone and > perfectly valid. If you are not interested in this project anymore, do us > all a favor and stop trolling and being toxic. If you want my respect, step > up your technical contributions, be positive and encourage others, this > including commits, I haven't seen for many months, please be positive and > constructive. This scorched-earth attitude is only reflecting bad on you. > I'm certainly not interested in your ad-hominems or unasked for technical > advice, which to be honest, showing poor judgment and ignorance. Myself > and others have come up with numbers, graphs, metrics and arguments and > have been met with dismissal, trolling and sea-lioning. I have recieved > your insults via public and private channels (such as linkedin) as have > others. This is not ok and has to stop. If you have something personal > against me or against your former employer, this is not the right place or > forum. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:56 PM Chris Olivier <cjolivie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Pedro, > > > > While I was not involved with amalgamation or its development in any way, > > can you please refrain from referring to the work of others as a "hacky > > solution"? This is derogatory slang and the statement was not supported > > with any justification for such name-calling. Someone spent a good deal > of > > time on this solution at some point in time and I am sure it worked for > its > > purpose at that time -- I think it was used in the original javascript > port > > as well, actually -- and it is disrespectful to call their efforts > > "hacky". Please respect what came before. > > > > Thanks for understanding, > > > > -Chris > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:07 PM Pedro Larroy < > pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I would like to propose to remove amalgamation from MXNet and CI, users > > > have reported that they couldn't use it successfully in Android, and > > > instead they were able to use the cross compiled docker build > > successfully. > > > > > > Any reason why we shouldn't remove this hacky solution? > > > > > > Pedro. > > > > > >
