-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/10/09 7:14 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > Just to clear the air here, for those > here are that unaware my transgressions > being bandied about, here they are...
I won't deign to speak for others, but I believe Max was sincere in his well wishes, and while you may not believe it, we do hope you do well wherever you move on. You did a lot of great work (or you wouldn't have gotten a commit bit in the first place); our issue was that you never really learned how to work with the group that laid down the work you built upon. You give a list of things you changed: > 1) sdl-x86_64.info > 2) tcltk > 3) python2x ...all of which were useful things, not to mention the incredible amount of work you put into gcc, which was Herculean to say the least. You did not mention that you spent a lot of your x86_64 time changing other people's packages with minimal or no input from the maintainer before messing with them. This has been an issue from the beginning, and something I (and others) had hoped you'd grow out of as you got used to having your commit bit, but you never did. In an open-source project, your ability to interact with the other people in the project is at least as important as the time you donate. No one is arguing that you did useful stuff, only that you failed time and time again to give even the most basic courtesy to the people whose packages you were working with. I've decided not to send this email 3 different times, since I really don't want to add any more to the vitriol, but I'm sending it anyways because I feel that these things need to be said. Our processes exist because they address real issues that caused problems for users. If they need changing, well, there were a million different ways to try to work with us to do so rather than just barge ahead. I really do hope you succeed in your MacPorts endeavors, and in the end, I suspect they will fit your style of work more; they are closer to the Ports/Gentoo style of release model compared to our Debian style. Anyways, truly, good luck. - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/ Music: http://music.raccoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.12 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKqdKrUu+jZtP2Zf4RAjAdAKCORf+QkSojUdeP6hmIffFbuUXVNwCeMXJt +DhQKcG9a5YeWK8M9eutXGc= =Q6Bs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
