Sebastian! If some decency exists, remove the response below from the list. I have never before seen attitudes like this in the open source project I have been involved with.
Kent On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 13:02 +0200, Jens Lautenbacher wrote: > On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 21:08 +0100, Kent Olsson wrote: > > Hej! > > > > > Beside javascript there are other technologies for RIA. > > > > There are about 30 different libraries out there. > > > > > Have you ever done a comparision? > > > > We did a comparison internally, but no one was better than Qooxdoo for > > the purpose of real web application development (RIA). It has a better > > design and is faster than most of them. Most of the ideas are close to > > how Java has been designed. In some cases it is better designed. One > > negative thing is that Sebastian has opened up the software, but not as > > much as it deserves. It slows development too much. It must be changed > > in some or the other way, else dedicated and brave developers will > > choose other libraries to support and contribute. > > Kent, > > your constant whining really starts to annoy the hell out of me. > Especially when you take every possible opportunity to tell rubbish > about the way "Sebastian handles the project". > > The problem is not that it's simply wrong what you are telling, but that > other observers may get some distorted view of reality. Have you ever > heard something about the little thing called "netiquette"? > > To make things clear: This project is released under the LGPL, and every > capable developer is invited to contribute. But this doesn't mean that > we simply stop thinking about what people put into the code base. The > quality of the code and the way it fits with the overall design plan > counts. Making contributions is a little bit more than telling people > what doesn't work and at best coming forward with half-baked patches - > and in any case reiterating the plain wrong over and over again doesn't > help either. > > The project is also not "run by Sebastian alone". It's just that he is > the one who is currently the most visible guy on the mailing list. This > doesn't mean that others don't work hard, too. > > For all the stuff that has been done, we know that there is still much > to do - but hey - this is OSS. People CAN make a difference by writing > code and engage in technical discussions, they can (and some already do) > help in the documentation aspect of the project. And we will have a wiki > "Real Soon Now(TM)" so this step will be even easier. > > But we really have no time to cure the personality problems of self > acclaimed project leaders who think they speak for the whole community. > > There have been valuable contributions so far, and there is a lot more > to come. Especially the work of Til and Andreas J. will prove to be > extremely important. But - unexpected as it may be for you - these > contributions came from people who are more concerned with writing > software than hanging around and behaving like a little child. > > Regards, > > jtl > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Qooxdoo-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
