Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Martin Arver
This is exiting times. Seems like Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne wants to join the team. But, not to be known by their real names but their aliases; SuperCoder or The Caped Coder. Not that I have much say in this discussion, but I do believe that Rockbox will live on without anonymous submissions and I

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Bluechip
What a shame. Guys, what about this "In reflection we cannot afford to lose good coders. The problems between us and BC run deeper than anything that was published online. Let's face it, we simply clash at some undefinable core level. The rule put in place at the moment of that crash see

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Jonathan Gordon
/me throws head in the ring... firstly i dont understand why you would want to stay annonymouse.. i like the egoboost of seeing my name on the web :D of course, i dont dont see what the big deal is.. so put him down as gl or mickey mouse, i mean, whos to say thats not his real name? also, like it m

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Matt Sicker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gl wrote: > > After Linus was about to commit one of my patches, it turns out the > project leaders are not willing to accept contributions under a > pseudonym. This may be normal in the GPL world, but for someone from > the Windows / BSD license wor

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread bk
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 13:33 -0500, Neon John wrote: > Unfortunately you're not the first developer run off by this petty > power ploy. I certainly hate to see it but there is little I can do > as a user other than express my displeasure. If you care about this issue so strongly, I think the most

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Tomas Salfischberger
Hi, Neon John wrote: >Even though I use my real name in places like this I don't think I'd want it >plastered all over the net in software. > > Maybe I don't understand the "privacy in software" madness, but your name has been recorded all over the rockbox mailinglist archives. Those archives

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Neon John wrote: From a legal/copyright angle, I find this amusing coming from the same people who flagrantly reverse-engineered and de-scrambled the binaries of more than one commercial product, the EULA for which undoubtedly prohibited same. This seems to be a highly sel

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Neon John
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:36:18 +0100 (CET), Daniel Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, gl wrote: > >> After Linus was about to commit one of my patches, it turns out the project >> leaders are not willing to accept contributions under a pseudonym. This may >> be normal in the

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Neon John
Unfortunately you're not the first developer run off by this petty power ploy. I certainly hate to see it but there is little I can do as a user other than express my displeasure. If I were still writing software I'd be in your camp. Even though I use my real name in places like this I don't thi

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Manuel Dejonghe
On 3/8/06, [IDC]Dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sad, and (not less sadly) not the first time... > > The second time, right? > It's not like we're scaring off hurds of developers. Right. I didn't want to let it sound like that. If I remember correctly, at the first time it would have been a p

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread [IDC]Dragon
> sad, and (not less sadly) not the first time... The second time, right? It's not like we're scaring off hurds of developers. gl, sorry to lose you, as you seemed to become a valuable contributor. Hint: You could still quietly come back with your real identity ;-) Or you join forces with Bluechi

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Jerry Van Baren
gl wrote: After Linus was about to commit one of my patches, it turns out the project leaders are not willing to accept contributions under a pseudonym. This may be normal in the GPL world, but for someone from the Windows / BSD license world, this seems utterly bizarre. An open-source pro

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, gl wrote: After Linus was about to commit one of my patches, it turns out the project leaders are not willing to accept contributions under a pseudonym. This may be normal in the GPL world, but for someone from the Windows / BSD license world, this seems utterly bizarre.

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread mathew holton
here we go again... gl wrote: After Linus was about to commit one of my patches, it turns out the project leaders are not willing to accept contributions under a pseudonym. This may be normal in the GPL world, but for someone from the Windows / BSD license world, this seems utterly bizarre.

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread Manuel Dejonghe
On 3/8/06, gl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After Linus was about to commit one of my patches, it turns out the project > leaders are not willing to accept contributions under a pseudonym. This may > be normal in the GPL world, but for someone from the Windows / BSD license > world, this seems ut

Signing off.

2006-03-08 Thread gl
After Linus was about to commit one of my patches, it turns out the project leaders are not willing to accept contributions under a pseudonym. This may be normal in the GPL world, but for someone from the Windows / BSD license world, this seems utterly bizarre. An open-source project should

Patch: Battery Levels, Arbitary level enums + WPS Features/Fixes.

2006-03-08 Thread gl
I've now completely implemented this, as well as enabling arbitrary battery and volume level enums (and various other WPS features & fixes) - it's exactly right. Patch & demo WPS here: http://www.rockbox.org/bugs/task/4802 Note that there's a change from my previous example; there is no step

Re: Freenode IRC

2006-03-08 Thread Tomas Salfischberger
Hi, Hristo Kovachev wrote: >IRC Nickname: Bg3r (@ work), Bger (@ home) >CVS Username: Bger > You should register 1 main nickname, and link the other with /msg nickserv link. That way we can get a cloak for Bger, and it will automaticly be copied to the other nick. Tomas