On Thursday 16 December 2004 22:51, J Aaron Farr wrote: > In fact, Niclas, why don't you open up > all the [EMAIL PROTECTED] archives? I seem to remember quite a few > conversations by the Metro TLP team about wanting to, what was it?, "clean > up the kitchen" or "take out the trash" in reference to cleaning up the > "dead" committers in Avalon.
1. It was not a mailing list per se. There are no archives, only what you have on your hard disk. 2. Isn't it great that you can "quote" without a source, taking things out of context without worrying about public scrutiny. You have really outdone yourself in this one, though... > I'm sorry you've got an ax to grind with Greg. His comment was > _not_ about defending Leo Sutic. 3. For the record, the incident with Greg is IMO something that happened, which I still think was utterly unappropriate (Why don't *you* open the mail archives around it?), but not to be held against him for all times. Furthermore, I didn't took it personally. I don't know if the law has been changed recently in France and Germany, but it has been illegal to even publish the words, and definately libel. Now, please stand with a straight face and say that was Ok, for for instance our german middle-aged member. > Who wants to commit any code or do anything in an environment as > poisonous as Avalon was at the time? 4. So you don't want to spend any time in Avalon, but you really do want to make it hard for everyone else? There has to be more than one to have a disagreement. > The only ones willing to keep committing were > those who were determined to bulldoze there agenda into the repository. 5. In a positive atmosphere, it would be called; "Prepared to take action, when paralysis had set into the community." The agenda was to promote Merlin into a platform for component oriented architecture. When that was considered being against approx half the PMC and some additional developers, we started the process of taking Merlin to TLP, but the Excalibur group just needed to be better, and by throwing in a second proposal, at least one member of the Board intervened privately, and asked us to drop the Merlin TLP and forge ahead with the new vision. Now, I call that a mandate. Yet, Excalibur TLP without me and Steve was manna from heaven for this group, but it was definately a matter of balkanization along people and not technology. Something Mr Coar would never agree to. > Not everyone understood the development goals of the two > communities (Excalibur and Merlin) and how they were different. 6. I didn't understand it then, and I don't understand it now. > Community health is the chief concern of the Board when > approving TLPs, whereas many Merlin TLP proponents didn't even > recognize that this was a valid concern. There wasn't a willingness to > work together. 7. Not willing to work together? Leo Sutic started on some very neutral aspect orientation stuff, which both I and Steve supported, but when the main driver runs out of air, what do expect? The 'accusers' of that Steve and I were unwilling to co-operate, only bring up that we refuse to make implementations to their whimps. Except for the /LS initiative, I can't recall any other, where we tried to stop any progress, that someone wanted to persue. Only recall the opposite. We do something, everyone else want to block it. Give me some examples where we were not willing to work together. FUD is hard to argue against. > Then why in the world are you bringing your grief back here? 8. "grief". My dear little boy, if you call this "grief" you don't know much about life. Call me when someone really near to you pass away, and then we can talk about grief. Maybe I am just satanistic sadist who like to kick a dead horse. Maybe I happen to think that a great injustice has been made, and don't like when people make statements portrayed as facts, when they at the most can be called perceptions. Niclas -- +------//-------------------+ / http://www.dpml.net / / http://niclas.hedhman.org / +------//-------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
