On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Andreas Veithen <andreas.veit...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I would like to inform all of you that I decided to significantly > reduce my activity in the Axis2 project. Over the last months I have > worked primarily on JIRA issues and on improving the test suites of > SAAJ and ADB [1]. This work has put me in the line of fire of people > who are not willing or not able to let a discussion occur in a > constructive way. Considering that I dedicate some of my free time to > do this and that my professional life is already stressful enough, I > can live very well without this. Doing the dirty job of fixing bugs is > simply not worth it under these conditions. > > The fact is that in AXIS2-4465, I have implemented a fix that > inadvertently removed a public method and causing a subtle issue in a > dependent project. I have been immediately accused of drastic and > deliberate changes to public APIs and these accusations went as far as > talking about "merrily chang[ing] APIs" and "things are going to > become a big mess". In addition these accusations have been put > forward while being vague on the exact issue that the fix caused (the > complete information about this was only disclosed in the 35th post in > this thread). This caused the discussion to quickly degrade instead of > remaining focused on the facts and drawing the conclusions after > analyzing those facts. Furthermore, in another thread, my fix in > AXIS2-4465 has been implicitly put on a level with a proposed > modification that would change the deployment subsystem, dispatchers > and transports. I think that all this goes way beyond legitimate > criticism and also way beyond what one would expect in a constructive > discussion. First of all I should thank you for your good work in Axis2 specially for ADB. I think it is a coinside that all three people worked with ADB codegen has the name starting with A (Ajith, Amila, Andreas) :) I feel sorry for the first reason you have mentioned. But I think this is not the first time of that. If you see the Deepals comments on what Isuru has done I can't see any positiveness. I am not saying it is correct but I would like to ask you not to take them personal. I think at least you got an agreeable solution at the end. Anyway disscussing things in dev list always is a good idea. The second reason you have mention I think is a complete misunderstanding. There is no connection between those two. I my point of view there is no point in contributing an open source project in a stress. But try to do for the fun :). Hope you use your free time and contribute to axis2 as you were, in furture as well. thanks, Amila. > > Note that I am not resigning from the Axis2 project; I will just shift > priorities. > > Andreas > > [1] > http://svnsearch.org/svnsearch/repos/ASF/search?path=%2Fwebservices%2Faxis2%2Ftrunk%2Fjava&author=veithen > -- Amila Suriarachchi WSO2 Inc. blog: http://amilachinthaka.blogspot.com/
