Hubert wrote: > > Let me start off by saying that I do feel it is > > somewhat unprofessional to stomp on Dom > Lachowicz's > > turf like this.
I replied: > What is the problem ? I don't understand. I guess it is time for me to introduce myself. My name is Sam Trenholme and my personal domain is http://www.samiam.org/. On some of the jobs I worked at (back in the days when computer skills were actually worth something on the job market), that kind of behavior did have a way of pissing people off. In addition, I have been dealing with the likes of D*n B*rnst*en for too long. He had a hissy when I announced my DNS server project on Bugtraq, because he felt that it was now a competition to his DNS server project, even after I went out of my way to support him on the Namedroppers mailing list when no one else was supporting him. Nice to see people here are more professional. I am helping a little with some of the bugs which annoy me while taking a bit of a break from my own DNS server project (http://www.maradns.org). If you want to see "bug fixing hell"; right now the major bug my project has is "after running a stress test on the server, it occassionally hangs". The tester can not even consistently reproduce the bug, and it is one I *have* to fix before 1.0. I use AbiWord mainly in two contexts: Writing documents which will probably eventally be printed and writing/editing Word documents to send to collegues. I write documents in two languages, English and Spanish. This is why the bugs I report involve problems with internationalization and Word document exporting. Just because I put a patch in the database does not mean I think that particular patch should be added to the AbiWord tree; I have received patches for my own project, and understand why most patches are patches which will not be added to AbiWord proper. I also understand why requests for AbiCalc and tables cause a collective groan from the developers. Anyway, good to be here, it certaintly is a much better way to spend my time than posting to and reading Slashdot (which I have given up cold turkey). I can't committ full time to this project, nor do I have the network resources to keep current with the CVS tree (dial-up hell, ugh), but I can send in some small patches for bugs; and make test cases which make it trivial for the developers to reproduce and test their fixes against the bugs in question. - Sam _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? La emoci�n e intensidad del deporte en Yahoo! Deportes. http://deportes.yahoo.com.mx
