Hi, I know I should stop actually this thread but since Robin didn't get the point again, I will comment to some of the more personal attacks included in his former reply. Perhaps this can help to get rid of some misunderstandings.
"Robin Rowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your name isn't listed as the project manager of GIMP. Not then. Not today. > In fact, in checking "Authors" at http://www.gimp.org/the_gimp_about.html > you aren't listed at all. Contacting you didn't occur to me because I had > never heard of you. I am not the project manager and I never claimed to be. There is no such role as the project manager in The GIMP development. Like most free software projects The GIMP is being developed by a bunch of hackers and other contributors who together form some sort of community. There is no leader elected and there's no spokesman neither. If you want to get in contact with the GIMP developers, you need to address them all and use the developers mailing list. There is no point in talking to a single person and there is also no point in taking a single person responsible. I don't give shit about my name listed on the GIMP website. If you want to know who is actively working on a free software project, you don't look at it's web-site, you take a look at the source code and the ChangeLog. You cannot apply the rules you learned from corporate software development to free software projects; it won't work. If you want to work with us, try to respect us and the way that things work here. > My name, on the other hand, was everywhere. Although I didn't know > of you, you should have known of me from the very start. I was > prominently in the press and posting to GIMP lists regarding Film > Gimp. You could have contacted me seeking my cooperation as soon as > you learned of my involvement in Film Gimp, but instead you > waited. Your approach has been to attack me from a public pulpit on > the GIMP mailing lists. Your invective remarks are not addressed to > me, but advise third persons against me. Yes, I noticed the selfishness with that you spread your name all over code that other people wrote. And I also noted that you are constantly trying to blame the wrong people for things that went wrong in the past. You even tried to change history (or the perception of it) by claiming obviously wrong facts. This is the point when I had to speak up and tell people how I remembered the story you just told them. > For you to suggest today that the problem was me not communicating > enough shows real cheek. The person out of the loop is you. You have > admitted you have no clue what happened to Film Gimp in 2000 when it > was killed or in 2002 when it was resurrected, but that doesn't stop > you from publicizing a negative opinion of it and me. Yes, I have a negative opinion on the code and there is nothing going to stop me from stating this as my very own personal opinion. I have no interest in telling anyone my opinion on you though. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
