Folks, Just to make sure that everybody has the DPP decoder ring, my comments and this list and on my blog should be read to mean:
- "maybe not for long" -- I expect that my harsh comments may result in me getting booted from the ASF or ESME project. I do not intend to leave unless asked to and I do feel very passionately about seeing ESME succeed. - I think Anne and Dick are just the right people to head up ESME. I cannot think of a better person or team to lead the project. While I think they have things to learn, I think that armed with the learning, they are going to rock... and I think they already rock! - My high regard for Anne and Dick does not take away from my high regard for the other participants in ESME, past and present. I would name names, but then I'd forget someone and that might be considered a negative. So, let me just say that everyone who has committed to this project has moved it forward. - I believe in burning down code. Mesa for NextStep was my first spreadsheet, code started in 1991. In the entire time that I ran the Mesa for NextStep project, there were 3 "crash" defects and 1 "incorrect recalculation" defect reported among our 50K+ user base (there were other bugs, but data loss and incorrect recalc bugs were top priority). For a bunch of years in the 90s, every Chrysler lease and loan was done through Mesa, billions of dollars were traded through Mesa on trading floors every day, national wireless companies did their financials using Mesa, etc. The code base exists (more than 50% of the LoC is the same) today as an OS X product. I was so disappointed with the Mesa codebase that when we started the OS/2 project, I made sure that none of the code came over. So, my expectations and commentary about my code bases do not reflect the common perception about code bases. Thanks, David -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp
