Volunteers don't respond well to ultimatums from those that do little else but whine when things aren't going well.
You didn't answer my point; a little communication to people
that (you worded it) "do very little for Freenet" (publishers,
users, evangelists, node operators ... and so on) would suffice.
One mail with a right worded subject in each maillist, a couple
of day before, was all I asked for; this was not done.
It wasn't done because this change was not imposed on anyone, only those that deliberately updated unstable were affected and they had ample opportunity to read Matthew's message before updating. Where unstable is concerned responsibility lies with the user to look before they leap.
I remain a strong Freenet supporter, but this doesn't imply accepting everything, in particular your position about the zero value of a Freenet community that was already destroyed in the past without IMHO any real need.
When did I ever say that the Freenet community had zero value?
You flatter yourself when you claim to speak for the entire Freenet community. Most of the Freenet community know the meaning of "unstable".
You, Matthew, and all coders don't need to find, or ever ask, a consensus, but you must have enought consideration of the people working in the background to just inform of disruptive or important changes in a correct and effective way.
People were informed in plenty of time to decide whether or not to upgrade, those that upgraded without knowing what they were upgrading to have nobody but themselves to blame for whatever minor convenience this might have caused.
Getting a consensus on every issue would make an already difficult task (debugging Freenet) virtually impossible. Software development by committee does not work, particularly in a project as complex as Freenet where only a few people really understand enough about the code to make informed decisions.
In other words: "Too many cooks spoil the broth."
Ian.
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