Hi:
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I only mentioned my fork to support my ideas about improving trunk. I
only started the fork because I was in a high-speed car accident, my
brain was damaged, and I needed a project to prove my technical skills
were fine.
I didn't know that and I hope every thing is ok.
You are aware of the fork because I mentioned it in the thread about
handling extensions. I suggested an easy algorithm, and mentioned
that it already worked in my version. The thread continued without a
response to my comment.
"We cannot waste resources in having endless discussions or having
good ideas in a
non ASF fork."
But none of my ideas are "good". I am not part of the development
effort because my ideas have been completely spurned. Every
suggestion I have made about Lenya has been discarded by the other
Committers. Most of the issues discussed on the dev list were fixed
or avoided in my fork because I fixed the architecture. Attempting to
pass that knowledge back to the 1.4 developers generated this
complaint.
I've been in different Open Source communities since 1999. In this few
years, I learned the real power of an open source community is in his
diversity. The capacity to see the same problem from different points of
views. The ability to find different solutions, different improvements.
This is what make us strong. At the same time, I learned often people
needs time to digest new ideas. I can say, it's natural, because our
human nature is usually against changes. When an idea is not welcomed at
the first introduction, we should prefer to give people some time to
think about the issue and return to it later, perhaps in a couple of
weeks the community can provide a better input or welcome the idea.
I did not start the fork because my suggestions are disdained. I did
not do it to hurt the project in any way. I needed to write code, and
could use a better version of Lenya. I'm scratching my own itch for a
few hours each week. My code and ideas are unwanted in trunk, so how
does my private work hurt the project?
I just can say: Wow! I wondered where you had been. Reading this mail is
sad to me. Not because of you, solprovider, I cannot express how much I
apreciate your openess. It's sad because seems the whole community
situation is already worse than we expected. The ASF is mostly about
communities, the code is not the most important. At the same time, I
will like to point you to Rules for Revolutionaries [1]. Please take 5
minutes and read it.
I would enjoy adding a branch at ASF, but why do it? It would risk
splitting the effort between the current 1.4 and a simpler, easier,
more flexible version.
I will like to see your version. Is there a demo?
The programmers enjoy working on the complex
version. The users who would benefit from the easier version could
not add value to it.
Sometimes it's not the case. ;-)
The fork is probably better as my private project.
Please reconsider this.
Best Regards,
Antonio Gallardo
[1] http://incubator.apache.org/learn/rules-for-revolutionaries.html
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