On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 12:30 PM, x...@freenetproject.org wrote:> I really don't understand how this could have been such a roadblock. If
> there is obvious abuse then we just ignore that feedback. Why is this so > hard? It seems like you're looking for reasons to declare a democratic > process is a failure. First of all, I *am* completely willing to do these difficult decisions. Just not as a volunteer-looking-to-be-hired, the job decision has to happen first. So propose objective criteria to weed out bad votes, and then stick to those objective criteria. > I agree, and I have agreed many times - the problem isn't that I'm clinging > on to "power", the problem is the lack of someone with the enthusiasm, > vision, and ability to take over coordination of the project, or at least > to share this responsibility and push things forward. If I have overlooked > anyone suitable raising their hand then please let me know. Good :) My mail was precisely intended as a request for what you're asking for here - I'd like to call the shots again. Are the 50 hours/month I spend on Freenet currently sufficient to count as "enthusiasm" ? :) You only seem interested in working on WoT, which is only one component of Freenet. The $25k donation was for the entire project, not just one component of it. I also feel it is a conflict of interests for the person that gets paid to work to also be the one that decides what to work on. Wouldn't we all want that job?> The old approach is not a responsible way to deploy $25k. I do feel it is unfair if you say such things to me considering you did not even *see* the previous approach: You weren't in "the office", aka IRC. How can you judge whether my approach of talking to the community was acceptable if you didn't even attend our common workplace? And this is exactly the problem, the lack of transparency. People shouldn't have to loiter in a IRC room just to have visibility into how decisions are being made and why. Also I wrote very detailed invoices and sent all of them to you, Matthew and Steve for review. There weren't any complaints as far as I remember. Why do you complain now when I cannot change anything about it anymore? Nobody can change the past, but we can change the future, that's what we are now discussing. This certainly feels a lot like the common trope of the management never being at the office at all and then suddenly appearing and telling everyone how everything they're doing is wrong. I'm sorry to say so; but I'm very certainly not the only one who has had this feeling. Many other of your "employees", i.e. volunteers, are displeased as well and have voiced that in length on IRC. - Which is why I'd like us to just stop the arguing and figure out the quickest way to make someone produce code instead of flamewars :) Honestly, the fact that your proposal is that we spend the donation to pay you to do whatever you decide to do is very self serving, and it's hard not to question your motives. You're basically asking to get paid to do whatever you want, which mostly seems to be to work on your own subproject, WoT, with little oversight or accountability. That doesn't seem like a responsible use of funds. Clearly I didn't expect it would take 6 months to get through this prioritization process (which still isn't done). But we have to figure out a better way to decide how to deploy or resources than "pay Xor to work on whatever he wants". Ian. Ian Clarke Founder, The Freenet Project Email: i...@freenetproject.org _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
