Hi Stefan,
hello my dear GGI people,
> Let me jump in here. I'm extremely annoyed about the 'support' (better:
> the nonexistence of it) I got in the GGI group. I'm definitely willing to
> help, as (I reiterate) GGI is an interesting and important project.
> However, I'm not going to beg much longer. GGI's administration/maintainance
> just doesn't cut it.
I am pretty ashamed to admit it, but you are right.
I just don't have the time anymore to lead the project as I should.
Thus I am pondering the thought of resigning project leadership and leaving
it to someone who has enough time to devote for that demanding task.
However I currently don't see anyone here that I feel could handle the task.
Say half a year ago or so, I'd gladly have given it to Marcus, who anyway
already got the lead position for LibGGI in practice for a while, but as it
seems he hasn't enough time to do it right as well.
> Seeing the difficulties the GGI coordinators have with the administration,
> I proposed sourceforge as a solution. Eric proposed to revamp the home
> page. We all seemed to agree on a stable release around the end of the
> year (LAST year !).
Yes. I and Marcus didn't have the time to roll up yet another release, but I
also have to complain a little about lacking support ... :
I remember times, when we had about 10 active coders and testers on IRC when
a release was imminent and we worked hard together to get the stuff done.
Actually I felt pretty alone with Marcus, when we prepared the last beta
release. We had a few watchers, but no helping hand. That's not encouraging
either.
> * the sourceforge GGI site is minimal, to say the least.
No time on Marcus side I suppose.
> * Eric and I have still no write permission, to submit our work
This is absolutely disgusting. I'm very sorry, though I can't do much about
it and it isn't my fault. O.K. - I see the need to move CVS to sourceforge.
Eman's response isn't quite what it was as well ...
> * there are still a couple of open bugs, so it is questionable whether we
> will see a release in the near future (from my experience with GGI, I'd
> really doubt it)
> Folks, if you are not at least a *tiny* bit more supportif to the efford
> of others, you are getting *nowhere*. I'm glad I rewrote berlin's Console
> layer last summer to make it sufficiently abstract for any implementations
> to be plugged in. This way we aren't doomed to be idling while waiting for
> GGI to wake up...
I understand you anger, and I'd really like to say "but", but you are dead
right. Sorry folks. Unless a few people that have the time and the
_devotion_ to give some life to GGI, we are dead in our tracks.
You haven't seen me posting much here, because I got quite depressed on the
way things went and on the way the ML seems to handle things.
People talk about having blitting libs, and I offer to give already working
code that would just have to be revamped a little and divided up into a few
more parts than it is, and all I get is a single response from someone who
never showed up posting on the ML. If something is depressing, then this.
Sorry folks, but that's not the support I was used to in the early days of
GGI and I can't work like this and I don't feel like doing every fu**ing bit
of work myself, especially as I have less time available than ever before.
Someone please step ahead and take the lead. I'll be there when you ask for
advice, but I simply don't feel like waving the banner in the front row and
singing the battle song anymore. I feel like my fighting days are over ...
Sorry folks, but that's how it is.
Sad greetings,
Andy
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