Tim, On November 6, 2006 4:06 PM you wrote: > > Ok. Clearly I'm not getting my point across. > And we're not communicating.
I think you should try harder to communicate. Communication involves both listening and speaking. You especially need to read email messages more carefully. Actually it seems to me that you got your point across a long time ago and that people are in fact acting on the goals that you set, even if they are not doing it in exactly the way you envisaged. > So I'm going to try something else. > I know I'm not going to like it already ... ;) > As of this moment Axiom is a complete democracy. > I don't think organizing a project as a democracy is good idea nor is it possible to create a democracy by fiat. People naturally follow those people who lead, not necessarily those who are the most vocal. As you have so often said when suggestions are being made: "advocacy is volunteering" in other words "show me the code". I strongly suspect that is how the Axiom project will continue to evolve. It seems to me that most open source project work by consensus and compromise. When this fails, they either fork or die. I still believe that consensus is possible here - after all we are not such a big group of developers! > ... > I will no longer be the "point of failure" in the project. > You are all now responsible for either checking in your own > changes or electing someone to do it for you. > I prefer the option of checking in our own changes following some discussion on the axiom-devel email list. > Releases will be done in any way you can all agree upon. > I think we should adopt the standard open source policy of release early and release often. This is not a commercial software project with milestones and cut-off dates. It is an ongoing, evolving collaboration between interesting parties to achieve a set of common goals. > Choose your own goals, create your own future. > We all do this every day. > I'm stepping away from the lead developer role and will now > act as just another developer. > I regret your decision, but I respect it. :-) I don't think that it really should need to be said, but since I am in the mood and it surely can't hurt let me just say: Thank you for all your previous hard work and for your continued commitment to Axiom. I have no doubt that it will continue to be a benefit to many people over the next 30 years... Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
