On 11 Aug 2008, at 17:58, de Villamil Frédéric wrote:
I've been recently thinking in 3 directions :
– embedding all the dependencies in vendor/gem, but this will create
issues with native gem extensions, like MySQL ones.
– completely removing the Typo installer, only leaving sources, and
a list of dependencies. Since gem install now completely fullfills
them, I won't care at all about what happens.
– having typosphere.org redirecting to wordpress.com since it's what
people here want, mostly spending time crying and complaining, and
eventually thinking you can play the BOFH without knowing how to
play with UNIX.
– just starting something else, leaving the project dead, just like
it was when I took over it.
It's bizarre, isn't it, how angry people get when you give them
software for free?
It takes months of hard work to create something like Typo and many
more to keep it useful and up to date, and then people fling angry
messages around and make insulting remarks because they had to install
a database driver, or because the software didn't allow for the fact
that they've got no idea what they're doing. Half the time I think
they just use these mailing lists to work off some aggression.
In my opinion, open source doesn't mean 'free', it means 'shared'.
Shared ownership, shared workload, shared responsibility. If someone
gives you grief it's perfectly acceptable for you to reply 'so fix
it'. If they can't fix it, or document it, or whatever it is that's
required, then they will have to think about being nice to someone who
can.
I hope you don't drop the project but I can well understand why you
would.
best,
will
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