Hello Kendall,

I'm not sure if you knew this. Telling someone you don't like the work
they do (but you presumably benefit from in some way) is usually not
going to motivate them to work harder.

You also might have misunderstood the way this and many other open
source projects are run. It's not a democracy, you don't get to vote
who's in charge or needs replacing. It's much better. If you don't like
the way the app works or the project is run, you can fork it and
implement your own ideas. That's the great thing about free software.
There's no need to convince a majority to do it your way.

Now, if you're not a developer this might not be an option. Maybe you
thought a change in leadership is your best bet to get an updated app.
You should have done some research. Currently I'm the only one actively
working on K-9 Mail. So your suggestion to replace the person in charge
is hard to implement. What's worse is that I'm currently writing this
response to your email instead of working on K-9 Mail. That means the
next stable version of K-9 Mail will be done just a little bit later
than it could have been. And that's thanks to your "contribution" to the
project.

I'm not very hopeful. But maybe this email will convince people that
voicing their opinion while not providing any constructive criticism is
wasting the time of everybody subscribed to this mailing list. You can
always use social media to inform your followers of your opinions.

Best,
cketti
(K-9 Mail maintainer)


On 12.04.20 03:37, Kendall Davis wrote:
> Despite what you keep posting, the honest answer seems to be yes, it
> is dead at present.  I could care less about your beta group because
> until it's launched on the public Play store, it not released, and
> right now in the middle of April 2020, the version on the Play store
> is still from  September 2018. So your attempted semantics aside, it
> is absolutely NOT BEING ACTIVELY UPDATED because it's not actively
> updated until it's posted on the Play store so users can update.
> Having it in a side group and  only in beta is NOT released.
>
> Yes I am aware it's volunteers just like every OS project. But I'm
> also very aware that code this far out of date with no general release
> available means that whomever's in charge of this project needs to be
> replaced immediately,  Especially when they're trying to convince
> people it is being actively updated even though no updates are being
> pushed.

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 
Mail" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/k-9-mail/80145240-bfb3-3d73-ee15-97267bdc43f9%40gmail.com.

Reply via email to