On Sun, 02 Oct 2016 15:01:48 +0200, David Golden <x...@xdg.me> wrote:
The selected person will not be announced until after the fact, in
order to
insulate him from having to deal with mst,
Let's put aside the identity of the person for the moment. Earlier you
said:
#4 is not an ideal, but a viable chance for the user community to come
together and take responsibility for steering things further.
Perhaps you could elaborate more on your thoughts about the *role* of
the maintainer after the handover: >what you see that person doing, what
kinds of decisions you think they will face, and so on. Also,
elaborate on >your criteria for a maintainer: what went into your
selection process?
Remember, we're most interested in seeing your articulate what the DBIC
community can expect for the future. >The specific person is merely a
mechanism for that decision.
Full disclosure:
This is gonna be personal, because it can't be anything but.
I am biased. I perceive myself as having been hurt by riba. Intentionally.
For no other reason than his own enjoyment. I perceive him having done the
same to at least one other person, for the same reason. He has expressed
he feels no remorse for any such actions, and in fact steadfastly
considers them something people interacting with him should expect as par
for the course. He has said so in public* and repeatedly and in vast
detail in private.
* https://twitter.com/ribasushi/status/597722817866661888 - (1:19 PM - 11
May 2015) - "For the public record: Sometimes I consciously troll people
for no other purpose but to relax. Been doing so for 2 decades with mild
success"
What i see happening here looks similar to strategies he employed back
then, which is to get people unnerved and then keep them on edge by
withholding information and implying consequences.
I am not convinced it is the absolute truth, but i consider this a
reasonable possibility: He may be doing the same thing right now, with his
cannons aimed at mst.
At the same time, as insane as this may seem, i trust him in technical
regards. In my experience he has not done any missteps that might be
considered "professional". I do not know if he does this merely out of a
sense of personal pride, or because such things may become part of his
"career history".
I consider mst's concerns as i've seen them linked in this thread to be
borne out of something riba created in a calculated manner: A fear of the
unknown, spiced with single-word hints at possible outcomes. Not an
attempt to fuck with riba. (Although i fully expect riba to claim that
this is now an attempt to collectively troll him.) The reasons and
expectations around the transfer of FIRSTCOME were clear and reasonable.
That said, it is true that in its current state DBIC is a one-man show and
has been for a long while. However, i do not know whether this is because
of a general lack of interest in involvement, or possibly due to riba
having been so abrasive to so many people (see his language towards other
devs in this thread) that nobody wishes to interact with him anymore, or
that he possibly has been engaging in large scale refactors that precluded
meaningful contribution.
I don't know if riba intends to just give the thing to ilmari and be
content with having kept some hearts beating at higher than normal rate
for a few weeks.
I don't know if he intends to give it to someone whose only action will be
to hold FIRSTCOME and do nothing else; thus effectively forcing PAUSE to
take this away, passing it on to someone else and effectively martyring
riba.
I expect it to be an outcome that will still leave him able to describe
himself as an excellent engineer.
However, as a DBIC user, i am worried about its future, specifically the
future of the development of DBIC, since the wording riba has chosen
leaves that ambiguous. I hope for two possible paths in the future:
Either riba states clearly and in entirely unmisunderstandable terms his
commitment to doing his best to start (not maintain) an indefinite future
of development following his departure and refrain from using his perms
and personnel choices to introduce any kind of obstacle to indefinite
development.
Or the PAUSE admins let him do whatever he wishes until his involvement is
complete, and commit to removing any obstacles to indefinite future
development he may have put in place, as per this violating the original
understanding at FIRSTCOME transferrence.
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With regards,
Christian Walde
