Thanks for this, Evan.
> This is, of course, separate and distinct from documentation, AdiumXtras, > user support, and website infrastructure, the status of which I did not > assess in detail (but recall that the last message about it that I was privy > to was on 4/13/19, when Colin wrote that: > >> A few of us are working to get the behind-the-scenes infrastructure repaired >> and restored so we can proceed with development and releases I'd like to take this opportunity to (belatedly) acknowledge that in recent months Gary has been putting a huge amount of work into restoring and improving Adium's broken infrastructure. The items listed at https://trello.com/b/nhz2JwDw/adium only show some of the work done but not all of it. > I stepped up to try to resume a leadership role to bring this back to a level > that someone without nearly 20 years of experience in the Adium codebase > could work on it. Thank you! :-) > With extremely limited time resources, I felt the best move for Adium was to > provide Asher, who offered to help and who I trust as much as I trust myself, > with commit access to help directly after he offered to do so. I felt that > “unilateral decisions” were the only decisions likely to move forward in a > timely fashion given the apparent radio silence. We’re all the heroes of our > own stories, right? > > It is clear that regardless of the radio silence at the code level, Robbie > and Mathew should have been involved in this discussion. That was an error, > and it was my error. Gentlemen, please accept my apologies. The most I can > protest is that I haven’t done this in a long time. Small excuse. Apology accepted. I know you meant well, Evan. Asher's "i just moved adium off hg" on IRC sounded very definitive and I can understand how that would have irked Gary, who, as part of his work on our infrastructure, has been busy researching Mercurial alternatives to Bitbucket. I regret not having informed the community on the mailing list of the work Gary has been doing and in this sense I feel partly responsible for the conflict that occurred between Asher and Gary. If Evan and Asher had known that there was work going on, they might have felt more confident about getting a response on the mailing list. I am fine with the move to Github as long as we make sure the migration works well and we don't lose any important information in the process. Asher and I have been working on that. I think there are a lot of benefits to Github compared to what we have. Asher has already done a lot of work towards bringing "Adium's code into 2019" and that's great. I'm glad to contribute my help and enthusiasm. :-) -Robbie
