Dear Dimitry,
the release 0.8.1 is going to be finalized under my directorship. Under my
directorship, the governance has not changed. Under my directorship, there
has been no discussion about making you a project manager. Put differently,
I am only asking for a textual recognition of what is actually the status
quo.
What I am surprised about is that you react to something which has already
been the case. I have _not_ suddenly changed anything. By contrast, there is
an installer stating things that are not true; things that, if true, would
signal a change in the governance; a change, of which I know nothing.
Even if I would agree to make you a project manager, there would have to be
an act of making you a project manager, of which I would need to know. But I
do not know of any such an act.
Maybe you can point me to an email or posting in which you are becoming a
project manager? I know of no such a posting.
I do not think that the texts of Windows installers are the proper place of
committing and announcing any such changes in project governance.
I can easily imagine you want to have more authorization in the project. And
this will be the case no later than after 0.9.0. And probably, this will be
the case much sooner, as I am planning to exit my role, after a smooth
completion of some things in progress, like the release 0.8.1.
As regards the fact that there has been no final release since 2005, your
hypothesis that it is because of my directorship, because of my insistence
on quality, seems unwarranted to me. Nothing is easier than releasing a
poor-quality release soon. This release is extraordinaly difficult. The new
features like rich text editing and scripts in this release are major, with
the development doing very little or no testing. When the development is
doing close to no testing, the communiction costs resulting from testing are
sky rocketing.
Actually, those users who are brave enough to use beta-quality releases have
been served well by our beta releases. Those users who want to use a
quality, polished software, would be served poorly by us having released a
premature, untuned release. There would be an apperance of having a new
final release, but the consequence would be of significant lowering of user
expectations as regards the quality of FreeMind. In their minds, users would
have to remap the term "final release" to the term "beta" when dealing with
FreeMind.
I assume, or at least hope, that at least Chris understands the value of
having a well-tested software. From what I have understood, the thoroughness
of testing was the trait of mine for which he appreciated me. Your point of
view is different. People have different views. You have several times
repeated your dissatisfaction about the lack of final release. There have
already been mails of yours on that topic, and I have already answered these
emails. In my leisure time, I have taken the pains to test the software that
you refused to test properly. You have argued that the testing was
inefficient for you. So I have done the stressing work of looking around the
application to see what things that already worked in 0.8.0 work no more,
and looking into details of things. I find your coplaints undeserved. You
have effectively outsourced the costs of testing from you to me, and when I
have accepted that outsourcing, bearing the costs that I would think should
be born by you, you are complaining in addition. I honestly feel
disappointed.
My disappointment is the reason why I have asked you all to release me from
my promise to be the director. Your appreciation of all the stressing,
drudgery testing work, requiring discipline, patience, and attention to
detail, is completely missing.
Best regards,
Dan
On Feb 9, 2008 11:15 PM, Dimitry Polivaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Dan, Chris and Eric,
>
> > PROJECT GOVERNANCE
> > "The current project director is Daniel Polansky, while the current
> > project manager is Christian Foltin".
>
> Current project management hierarchy where decision making is separated
> from the development and user support has produced no new release
> since 2005. I do not agree to have two bosses for a team consisting of
> two developers and one packager. As a developer with substantial
> contribution to the project since 2003 I feel like it is not fair.
>
> This structure significantly reduces my motivation to spend time and
> efforts to the project. Therefore I am suspending my active
> participation in the project until the project organization can be
> changed.
>
> Best regards,
> Dimitry
>
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