* piccavalo -- Monday 11 December 2006 12:11: > I don't understand these mails.
I hadn't intended to prolong this bizarre subthread, but here's an explanation: Dave CULP is JSBSim and fgfs developer, as well as the maintainer(?) of the 737, or at least contributor of significant parts of it. I am an fgfs developer, too. On IRC I took the nick name "cptf". (When I first joined, I thought that it's "mandatory" to have a funny nick. Today I would just have taken "mfranz".) A year (or more) ago I had criticized the 737 auto-slats feature in "nice" words. Dave acknowledged the problem. Yesterday I tried an approach with the 737 again, and ran again into the slats bug. (Yes, for me it's a bug, as it doesn't work with all the in-air options that simulators like fgfs typically provide, so that one can train approaches.) Because of the slats my approach went no so well, and I was a bit fed up, and thus criticized the 737 bug again, including a fix. This time with harsher words (in the light of my virtual death. I was still mourning. ;-) And a few minutes later Dave joined the fgfs IRC channel (irc://irc.flightgear.org/#flightgear), told me to "f*ck off" and left the channel immediately. I considered that the only response that we'd have to expect from the 737 maintainer, so I posted that to the list. It was cited literally, in full length, and totally not taken out of context. But for me the story is over. No need to discuss it in great length. m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
