[maemo-developers] Deleting Project PyGTKEditor from Garage

[From: Fred Pacquier]

Le 24/03/2010 19:33, Michael Cronenworth a écrit :
> Benoît HERVIER on 03/24/2010 12:08 PM wrote:
>> Yes there is discussions, talk, brainstorm ... and other discussions,
>> emails on the mailing list but ZERO actions taken. This was my first
>> experience in an true OSS community ... but probably the last.
>
> This is not a true OSS community. If you want that go to Debian or
> Fedora. Before you start these wild rants know what your scope is.
>
>> FELICITATIONS you loose an other dev ! Your so closed mind IS DIVIDING
>> the community !
>
> If the Maemo folks (Maemo.org masters) do not wish to change the QA
> design by only writing an e-mail to them then you should create a bug
> about it or form an official petition to see the QA policy changed.
> Storming off and creating a new repo is not a *mature* or friendly
> solution. The last thing I'd like to see is Maemo split into one repo
> per app.
>
> PLEASE NOTE: I'm not arguing about your right to split off. Anyone
> continuing discussion about the right to do so is completely OFF-TOPIC.
> I'm talking about the politics of the situation. You're completely in
> your right to create software the way you want, but when you want to
> play ball with a distribution/community you need to have a little better
> understanding of the rules instead of becoming an outlaw.

Michael,

I have no idea who made you king and what gives you the right to lecture 
productive community members from the top of your soapbox, the way 
you've been doing here.

But I do know one thing, as a simple user of things other people have 
made: a search of your name in Garage yields only one package you are 
listed as maintaining, something named "stopish". Maybe you have other, 
hidden activities, but this particular one doesn't sound like it would 
be of any use to me.

On the other hand, I have been a grateful user of Benoît's PyGtkEditor 
ever since the early versions on the 770, and *that* is definitely 
something useful to me, that I'd like to see further maintained and 
improved.

So if it comes down to choosing between Benoît's way of pursuing his 
project with his own repo, because he is fed up with the "one true way", 
and your own purist view of how people should "play ball" and be 
"mature", I won't have to think about it for even one CPU cycle.

fp