On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 07:00 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for offering to become the new maintainer for Midnight > Commander. I do not want you to become the "Project Manager" for a > number of reasons: > > * In open source, maintainers are chosen by their merits, before > today I have never heard of you. It is a meritocracy, you > have shown none so far. > > * In open source, I have never seen a "project manager", this is > an invention of the standard software industry. There is no > "project manager" for Linux, Samba, x-Windows. > > * Maintainers are people with deep understanding of the codebase > and the language the code is written in, so they can make > decisions as to what is best for the project on technical > grounds. > > * You exhibit the behavior of many people who have no ideas > whatsoever about the project but like big titles. "Public > Relations Coordinator", "the leadership", and "Project > Manager". > > * MC should not be part of the "Krusader family", it is > an independent project, not part of a suite. > > * I dislike people who misspell: "Krusader" and "Krew". > > * Tell the "Leadership" that thanks, but no thanks. > > As I stated previously, if we have problems in Midnight Commander, I > will step in as its maintainer or suggest someone actively involved (or > which has been actively involved in the past) to do so. > > Miguel.
Thanks allot for taking the time to still lookout for MC. I couldn't agree more with most of your points, especially after reading the numerous personal attacks and threats made towards you being spammed to the list. At this point I can't imagine how anyone in their right mind would even consider this offer, let alone continue the dialog. Thanks again, -- Brad Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~bcowan Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xB1F16A56 Key fingerprint = C408 75B9 E68D 26E2 EAAE 20CF 4D5E 293D B1F1 6A56 _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
