Hi Geeks Some people asked why I am leaving and therefore I took some time to explain what happened from my view. The kick-out also raises the question how owns the code of an open-source project especially when a company like JBoss Group (JBG) makes money out of it but also controls who can write code to the project. In a much smaller scale it looks for me like the events around Enhydra.
I left the JBG in September 2002 because I could not make enough to support my family (I got a baby boy in July) and after he ordered me to stop any public presentations about JBoss and threatened my with sanctions. I felt this was an invasion into my private life and refused to do so. When Bill Burke asked all developers to tell him what we were working on and what we are doing next I said that I would like to work on the EJB Timer Service and then return to JSR-77 implementation. This triggered some discussion about it where I agreed that the current implementation is not good and came up with some ideas how to fix it. After Scott Stark told me that he doesn't want any JSR-77 code in the core and want to use notifications to handle management I stepped down from the JSR-77 development because I feel that this is not the way it can work and that the implementation could only be successful when core developers work together with the JSR-77 developers, which was lacking from the very beginning. On Thursday last week I noticed that I am not on the developer list anymore and after I asked Bill and Marc what happened I got the confirmation on Friday that my CVS RW access has be revoked and I was kicked out of the project. Marc told me that I do not live up to my par on the project (coding wise) like my failure with JSR-77 and that they feel that I have a conflict of interest. Because this is technically true, even though that Marc had the same conflict when he started JBoss and was employed by Sun, I would not have mind if they would have asked me to stop contributing until the conflict is resolved. Also I think that were failures in JBoss beforehand like when Marc rewrote JBoss after Rickard's design, Dain rewrote JAWS etc. The point that makes me furious is that after my CVS RW access is revoked I loose any control of my code I contributed. There is not way I can improve my code, which finally leads to the removal of any code I wrote. At the end it also leads to the question if Marc or JBG can take JBoss, kick out all the developers and sell it. But I am not a layer and cannot answer the question. Because I cannot turn back the clock and it seems also not convince Marc to reinstate me as JBoss developer I have to accept it and go on. After the motto 'What doesn't kill you makes you only harder' I probably have to face the difficult task to start at ground zero but you can be sure that I will be coding on an open-source application server in the near future. I am already checking out different scenarios. Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year Andreas Schaefer "Code or be coded" Check out www.madplanet.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
