Remy Maucherat wrote:
>>>
>>However, if you guys tried to work with us from the outset, much of this
>>confusion would never have risen.
>>
>
> Maybe at that time we *didn't* want to work together for some very specific
> reasons. After all, the original commons proposal, which I was part of,
> was -1ed only by Peter, because we apparently had diverging opinions about
> how shared code should be governed.
> Given the number of components in the commons, I think it has been quite
> successful with its goals, and it did abide by its basic principles
> (openness, bazaar style repository, extremely few external dependencies, no
> imposed coding style, etc etc).
Hmmm. Remy, I have to say this sounds quite petty.
> I'm also greatly disturbed by the timing and the ferocity of your
> complaints. AFAIK, nobody here did invent the facade pattern or the Logger
> interface (or whatever you choose to call it). It seems Rodney came up with
> something similar to LogKit by accident.
Timing maybe, ferocity? If you think that is ferocity, then you haven't
had any kind of debate yet.
Seriously though, if I had known that this project was started before we had
our own Logger abstraction, I could have championed the cause for Avalon.
As it is now, we can't very well go back and deprecate yet again what is
supposed to be a stable API.
By choosing not to work with us openly, you have kept the Avalon community
from the benefits of your work. All for a seemingly petty reason. I have
dealt with Peter on a number of occasions, and I really appreciate the guy.
He is very oppinionated, its true, but he *can* be convinced. You just
have to be persistent, and explain your thinking clearly.
The "I 'tried' and gave up" attitude is bad.
> Now, if all you want is some credit for "being there", then so be it, you
> have it :) You just could have asked it a lot sooner and in a lot nicer way.
Sooner, no. Nicer way, possibly.
> Scott added that: "That is the past. This is the present, and I WANT Avalon
> and commons to work in harmony, not dischord."
> Well, maybe, but the present still reminds me of the past a lot :-(
> Hopefully, that's the last time it happens.
Well, perhaps we can both get over ourselves and just move on. I'm willing
to burry the hatchet if you are. However, I *don't* like when projects that
can work together disassociate because of petty reasons. If there are *real*
technical reasons, I can appreciate it.
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