On Mon 4 June 2007 08:24, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Jon S. Berndt -- Monday 04 June 2007: > > I don't see anything wrong with holding it back for possible > > inclusion in FlightGear CVS until the carrier features are > > supportable, [...] > > No, there wouldn't be anything wrong with it. Except that this > is not the whole story! > > Gerard *had* offered it for CVS *knowing* that JSBSim had no > carrier support. It was I who committed it, and I had some work > making it acceptable and applying (often broken) patches. Then > he started bitching about the poor performance of the fgfs/jsbsim > developers, who didn't work fast enough for him. And after > carrier support had still not been implemented after some months(?) > he asked for his aircraft to be removed again from CVS. There > was no "holding back" at all. > > There were discussions about it on IRC, and people offered to help > out with a YASim FDM config (with working carrier support at that > time already), but Gerard didn't only refuse to accept the help, he > even wrote on his HP as a copyright restriction that nobody > would be allowed to write a YASim config for his F8![1] > > We wouldn't have had to remove the F8 -- after all it was offered > under the GPL -- but it was removed anyway. (Well, not really, > it's still in CVS, in the attic. ;-) This was someone taking revenge > on the FlightGear project because it didn't follow his orders. > Pathetic behavior like this does fortunately not happen often in > the OSS world. But I'd be careful to ever again accept contributions > from unreliable people. And in this light the advertising on the > fgfs list is, well, kind of weird. > > m. >
That is a story partly reviewed by Melchior to make a better scenario. Now , i understand why Melchior don't like me. -- Gérard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
