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From: "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: gEDA users mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via > geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >> >> Am 06.10.2015 um 20:06 schrieb DJ Delorie: >> > except for one thing... >> > >> > Instead of using the existing bug trackers, he created a new private[*] >> > bug-tracker/PPA that implies that it's the official gEDA project page, >> > and had all the work done in that tracker instead of the official >> > ones. >> > >> > [*] I say "private" because it's owned by him, and not by the geda >> > admin group. >> >> You see, it's exactly this nonsense why I consider it pointless to put >> any more work into gEDA: >> >> 1. This bug tracker isn't owned by me, it's owned by gEDAhead. A simple >> look at the tracker would confirm this, but apparently you didn't even >> look. >> >> 2. If I had seen a chance to remove my name entirely from the gEDAhead >> effort I certainly would have removed it, because "ownership" is >> something impossible in a collaborative effort. Unfortunately it's not >> possible to remove my name; it'll stay there just because I was the one >> who clicked "create". >> >> 3. Neither gEDAhead nor this bug tracker claims to be "official". >> gEDAhead doesn't care about "official". gEDAhead cares about making >> development convenient and about bringing results to the users. >> >> > He claimed it was done in the name of openness >> >> Right. There's the explanation you're missing so badly. >> >> If you prefer bugs fixed not only using a different bug tracker, but in >> an entire code fork, please join Igor2, Peter Clifton, Stefan Salewski, >> ... oh, wait, all these people don't want to join anybody. Too bad. >> >> >> > but neglected to >> > discuss it with any of the other admins, >> >> Up to the days when gEDAhead was successful, traditional admins were >> entirely deaf. I wrote them, they didn't anwer at all. Others wrote >> them, no answer either. Volunteers were clicked away without discussion. >> You, DJ, claimed to have no business with this team (and actually were >> member, but on the low privilege level). >> >> Now you try hard to find reasons to attack me personally. Not all five >> members of the gEDAhead team, but only me. Granted, you can attack me as >> much as you want. But by attacking you won't gain anything but you own >> or gEDA's destruction. >> >> The really shocking fact for me is that the moment you became owner of >> this traditional Launchpad team you fell into almost the same deafness >> and stubborness your precedessors showed over the years. I had really >> expected more from you. >> >> >> Very obviously you simply try to cover the more than obvious failure of >> the traditional team. gEDAhead was more successful in 10 days than the >> traditional team in the last 2 years. Times have changed. > > > I think it's not quite right to credit all this to gEDAhead. There were > numerous talks on the list about what might be done to get things going > again and at least partly as a consequence a lot of people got the idea it > might be worth participating. A lot of that discussion predated gEDAhead. > Others contributed as well with code sprint (wasn't that Bert originally. > > Your effort both code and code review has been really good, why waste the > energy with this feud? Having two parallel BTS is obviously a bad outcome > whatever the cause. > I feel like Markus basically won when he was made admin. At the time I thought it was wrong but I was not considering all the stuff Markus had contributed. It now seems like a reasonable compromise. What other than letting anyone who asks be admin would make things work? -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/