I'm speaking out of frustration, disappointment, and a touch of anger. You've been warned.
I had such high hopes for this project. I've been using linuxcnc/machinekit for 13 years. Like most people, I have a love-hate relationship with it. So much promise and so much frustration all together. When the fork happened, I was one who was cheering. Forks used to be a bad thing but git changed that. Forks mean new ideas can be tested without disturbing the mainline. "Finally", I thought, "New approaches and solutions. Hope". Ha! What a joke. This project has been a let down. The technical side has been great. Really some amazing ideas and progress. The individual people are some of the nicest around. Helpful, hopeful, and smart. But the project? Absolute disaster. Every attempt at helpful feedback has been met with words and no action. The C4 concept might work in other projects but has produced no fruit here at all. Worse, it's prevented normal participation by increasing the friction. Documentation is almost non-existent. Where it exists, it's often contradictory or just wrong. There are no reference projects and hardly any videos. The newsgroup is almost silent and the gitter channel/matrix room are ghost towns where nobody answers. The project started with a high value for using git (remember that fork thing?). Today neither the machinekit-hal or machinekit-cnc repos have any branches or tags besides master. Seriously, HOW THE HELL do I find the last known working code!? It looks like someone started a major development effort, broke things, and then walked away and I can't find any discussion about that initiative. Why is it so hard to understand what the hell is going on? Look, if the project is dead, say that. Lead it out to the pasture and put a bullet in its head and let's get back to making LinuxCNC better. If core contributors don't have time right now to continue working, can we please take the time to mothball the thing properly? But if somebody thinks there's still value here (and I seriously hope you do) then for the love of God can we please do this right? Can we document what works, consolidate our communication, and lower the barriers to contribution? Does anyone still care? Ok, I feel better now. -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to machinekit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/machinekit/7e4f7909-214a-4bba-a398-30548d99ca1fn%40googlegroups.com.
