Dear Jeff, Thanks for your contributions to this project.
LinuxCNC is really a good project for me to learn motion control. The software architecture, real production code ... make great sense to me. Thanks very much! On 08/28/2018 06:41 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: > Hi all. > > I first became involved with LinuxCNC in 2004, and it remains the Free > Software project to which I've made the largest contribution. However, > I haven't been very involved with the development or use of LinuxCNC for > years---in fact, looking back at my blog, it has been almost 9 years > since I last did anything on my little CNC router worth mentioning. > > During my time as a more active developer, I often positioned myself as > a gatekeeper. At the time I believed that by exercising control over > what went in to LinuxCNC, I was preserving the software from harm. More > important than whether any of those individual decisions was right or > wrong, I now worry that I have contributed to a bad culture in LinuxCNC > that drove away contributors. > > It has been said that the Internet is founded on "rough consensus and > running code". Today, I think that LinuxCNC could benefit from more of > this attitude and less of my "gate-keeping" style of dealing with > contributions. > > For these reasons, I have decided that it's time to make it official: > I'm taking myself out of the loop of LinuxCNC, particularly and most > importantly as it comes to making decisions about pull requests. > > As far as any administrative privileges I have (github, website, IRC, > sourceforge(!), etc): I'll turn in my keys to any of those on request, > as long as that leaves at least two people who will keep that service > going to the benefit of LinuxCNC developers and users. In the meantime, > I don't mind keeping the forum software and its OS up to date as I have > been doing. > > A number of you are really good friends. I'd like to keep it that way. > I plan to keep hanging out in #linuxcnc-devel and I'll try to provide my > "wisdom" if it's requested. > > Please use the remainder of this thread to reminisce about the good > times. For instance, I fondly remember two events in particular from > the CNC Workshops I attended in Galesburg: > > 1) We're all sitting at the pizza place, and Jon Elson and John Kasunich > are both trying to out-do the other with stories about mishaps with > power electronics. I've still got nothing on even the tamest of their > tales. > > 2) While running the Mazak, I discover that hitting alt-tab makes rtapi > freeze up for a few milliseconds while the screen redraws, leading to an > audible "BAM!" from the mill. Instead of exercising common sense and > not doing *that* again, I held down alt-tab to make it go "BAM BAM BAM > BAM" until someone ran up to hit estop. (the fix was replacing the > video card, I think I recall) You shouldn't leave a newbie in charge of > a big machine like that, even for a moment! > > I wish you all, and the project itself, the best. > > Jeff > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
