The framework is not being touched.
Then all my points where moot. Sorry for wasting your time over my misunderstanding.
Ok - I have no problem with a reference to Merlin as a one-man-commit effort.
Ok.
Ok, technically I'm wrong - there are at least 3 others that have comitted to Merlin and at least 6 that has submitted patches.
Yeah, well, this doesn't count as a community-driven design methodology in my book. Hopefully it doesn't in yours as well.
Bottom line - would I want it to be any different - yes and no. No in that I have may hands full getting Merlin to a state where I am ready to say to the rest of the Avalon Community "here it is, let's go".
Nice to hear that.
Until that time I'm happy to be somewhat in control.
Oh, I have no problems whatsoever in one person having control of a proposal for a new generation of software. I've done it myself several times and I've seen people doing it without creating community problems.
But please recognize that control is relative. Control in this context means multiple days responding to the wims of the avalon community. Ok, yes - it would be nice to have a couple of other comitters pumping away - but to be honest - its just not stable enough at this time and they would probably cause more work than assistance. Take for example the patches from J�rg to internationalize the command line interface - the CLI logic has been restructured and not the German language messages he submitted are inconsistent with the behavior.
To be really honest - a few more weeks is needed. The service access mechanisms on the Block interface need top be finalized and there is a bunch of documentation that needs to be updated. After that it's open game.
don't feel pushed. I don't want to push anybody, just to understand.
Now that my alarms set by misunderstanding are off and now that I was able to get people recognize that if a valuable committer has a problem with the technical issues involved the community should value his contribution (no matter what language he/she used to express it), I'm happy and I can go back to work.
Please understand that I don't have time/energy to follow deeply the technical discussions here on avalon-land.
I just want to make sure this community is happy and safe and healthy so that I can finally leave with lots of trust.
i'm getting more and more closer to that point.
And this is making me happy and it's a good thing.
Stefano.
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