Hi Andi,
We've had to do a lot of rewriting/refactoring on Chandler as we figured
out what we wanted and learned along the way. For example, the sharing
layer has been rewritten several times, and now we have something we're
pretty happy with. Most of my original code has been rewritten away. :)
I don't think it means the original work was in vain.
That said, I can understand having the emotional reaction of not wanting
to work on this refactoring project for personal reasons. As you have
many talents we can put you on other projects.
I think you can be proud of the role you've played in the project so far
-- you stepped in under a cloud of (nearly) impossible requirements
for the original repository and made it work and moved the project
forward. Yay! The repository got us to Preview, that is a huge
accomplishment. Chandler desktop is now one of the 4 applications I use
all day every day. (The others being Thunderbird, Firefox and Adium).
Cheers,
Katie
Andi Vajda wrote:
Silly ? For the past four and a half years, I've been under considerable
pressure to deliver on a persistence model that I strongly believe in -
that was chosen by OSAF way before I joined - to deliver I product and a
platform that were core to the vision that started all this. Persisting
objects, not data, and transparent persistence were part of this.
It is rather discouraging to be told after all this time and work that
we did it all wrong, and that we have to start over and that we need to
persist data instead of objects after all :)
Just like when you joined us, when you were already saying so, I offered
you my job. You're again, even more forcefully this time, doing the same.
Again, I'm offering to yield as I don't see how I can contribute in an
endeavour I don't believe in. It's not a matter of personal honor,
please leave that aside, but a matter of fairness to the project and to
myself.
I don't want to stand in the way of progress, in other words.
Good luck !
Andi..
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