Daniele orlandi wrote:
> I've read the whole thread, I see your disappointment and I have to
say that
> it doesn't come unexpected to me.
>
> However... I did not leave the list because I wanted to keep the
development
> secret or because I don't want to support the community born here.
>
> I did it because when I was working on the refactoring a so large
part of the
> infrastructure I felt a sort of panic; not seeing the end, not
knowing *IF*
> the refactoring would have been successful (yes, it could have been a
> possibility!), did put me in a very fragile state. Reading a thread
like this
> *now* is not harmful because I have my enthusiasm back; having read
such a
> thread two months ago would have been very detrimental to the future of
> vISDN.
>
Well, is not that way. If you just had said "hi, I'm alive and working"
some times (just 2 minutes time, you can't be that busy, seriously), no
"bad karma" thread would have started at all. Simply disappear without
notice, leaving us "hanging" in the empty space, and have only a mail
from Brancaleoni and not you, and then again 1 month of silence is...
well, I'm sure you understand our feelings :)
For instance, last week, after another month of silence, I decided that
I had to do something and I wasted a big amount of hours making mISDN
work (better a not good mISDN than NO vISDN at all, I thought).
> Starting that refactoring in such a way was a mistake. Now I can say it
> resulted in a better architecture but it also resulted in several
negative
> issues: your disappointment, my anxiety, the growing feeling of being
wasting
> my time and the disappointment of my employer too!
>
> Luckily in the last month several things turned well so, let's work
together
> to try to put out the definitive 1.0 release.
>
> Bye!
>
I'm *really* happy you are back, and I wish all the best to vISDN, since
looks really good and GNU really needs a reliable ISDN framework. I'll
wait 1.0 to be complete, will not fall in the "beta testing trap"
anymore, sorry (ok, never say never). But I think you are a great
developer (I know about your work since the bristuff patches you made),
and I'm sure you will succeed. You should trust more the community, if
not technical support you can also have "human" support if you are lost
or depressed. A friendly community is like a big family.
A friendly hug from Italy
Marco Menardi
btw, you can have a look at this article:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
"Things You Should Never Do, Part I"
where you can read "...They did it by making the single worst strategic
mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the
code from scratch."
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