Oh shit... I meant to delete this one and send the other.... Disregard it please. I changed my mind half way through and spoke a little too frankly. I don't have time for the nuclear fallout.... Damn, were is the rewind button on this damn thing.
-Andy On 5/30/03 10:45 PM, "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Oh, joy! Why did it come out to light that I am a man? >> Russian gentlemen often take me as a lady because my first name >> ends up with "ya". ;-) >> (suffix for feminine noun in Russian / Ruski Yazjik) >> > > Tetsuya sounds masculine to me... Secondly its a statistical probability > that you are male. > >> By the way, congratulations upon the promotion of Tapestry to Jakarta >> Subproject. It seems to have taken a long time (since October last year?), >> but your efforts have been tremendous. Maybe you are the best "incubator" >> in Jakarta ;-) >> What are you planning to incubate next to it? -- AltRMI?? >> > > This will be a long reply to a short message but you gave me the perfect > opportunity to dump this off my chest. > > Nothing for a good long time. The amount of energy now required to start > any effort in Apache is much much greater than it once was. To be honest, I > have nothing but the greatest opinion of Apache, but nothing but the most > negative opinion of the results of the "reorg". I was totally right, we > have thrown the baby out with the bathwater and for now on everything worth > anything will happen in Commons or the "Sandbox"es, etc. Its just too much > of a gigantic pain to argue yourself to death and deal with a tricameral or > worse process. > > We set out to fix "too little oversight" and well, we overcompensated on the > ice and are in a ditch. Tapestry was a unique situation because you had a > "star" like Howard and a great group of guys to make it worthwhile. They > deserve the credit, I did little if anything. I just ran interference > against the organization and took a few bullets. It shouldn't be like this. > > A more accurate analysis would be that we saw a river that was flooding a > valley and we dammed it too completely and now its overflowing its banks in > some places but causing a draught in the valley. Its hard to plant new > crops or grow some of the existing ones. There will be more "violations" as > people find clever ways around the bureaucracy and fewer bold an new > efforts. Its a system to work against not in. > > Fortunately, the fertile POI plantation is more alive now than ever. It was > hard for me but I made a conscious decision that for the project to grow, I > needed to be less active and let others fill the void. Thatıs happening now > and on top of that business is booming. So I have a nice well-irrigated > little home to return/retreat into and a new frontier to explore that has > not reached the level of "management" that we now have here. > > (I stole this idea from Stefano whom I think quits his projects and returns > on a regular basis for this same reason ;-) -- though I might be giving him > excessive credit -- I wouldn't bet on it... In my next life I want to be > reincarnated as a fly on Stefano's wall...) > > I've no intention of being the one who picks up the hatchet and fights the > counter-reformation. I'd rather just be on of the cowering masses (for a > change) that follows once the inevitable backlash starts. I'm not the only > one who is unhappy with the current "reforms". > > In the case of AltRMI, its in good hands with Paul Hammant who knows more > about starting projects than I ever will ;-).... (now "releasing" them is > another story ha ha j/k paul). > > In any case. I'm done fighting for awhile. Tapestry is promoted and I'll > help there when I'm needed. POI is healthy. My business is booming like > mad. Life is VERY good. > > If someone does decide to take up the issue they are welcome to use this > email and I'll be happy to help if I'm able, but "it ain' me, it ain' me, I > ain no fortunate son".... Or to paraphrase/steal from Churchill: "When I am > in the Socratic mood" I realize that my wonderful plan "would upset a lot of > things; it would cause commotion and bring me perhaps in the end a hemlock > draught." > > I hope to see some of Y'all at JavaONE and maybe you Tetsuya at the next > ApacheCON (we're doing one this year right?)... > > Peace, > > -Andy > >> Sincerely, >> >> -- >> Tetsuya Kitahata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> -- A man who thinks of Money as "S" on a skewer ... with love. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -- Andrew C. Oliver http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi For Java and Excel, Got POI? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
