Owner? I didn't think anyone *owned* open source per se. I think what you have is a small vocal group who is tierd of waiting for hsqldb to happen and wants to make it happen. How would anyone know where Micheal is or even that he is in charge of anything since he is unavailable? I personally don't care who runs what. I just want to contribute and see this project move forward, something it hasn't done in quite a while. I would hope that Micheal wants the same while he is away, although a few months ago I approached this group with the offer of helping and was, in effect, told to buzz off. That made me wonder about motives, as your post has.
I think your gang of teenagers metaphor could be better applied to people who are more concerned about who has control and who owns what than the betterment of the project and the project process. Frankly I don't care who does what, who gets credit for what, and who gets to put PM at the bottom of their e-mails. I just want this thing to move forward and get better, and to that end I offer 15+ years of coding experience, so you may surmise that I haven't been a teenager for quite a few years :) Taking the plans and building another house is counter productive since that will just leave us with yet another contribution to the kind of digital suburban sprawl that sourceforge and the internet is rapidly becoming. A monstrous landscape of bandwidth sucking half-built houses all kinda looking the same. Everyone is far better off working on this house and making it the best it can be. But if Micheal, in fact, *owns* this house, then perhaps we have no choice but to take our tools and build one that *doesn't* have locks on the doors right next to it. all-i-wanna-do-is-write-code-ingly yours jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here is my take on what has happened in the last few days. A small vocal > group has suddenly appeared, who want to take control of an existing project > in the absence of the project manager, rather than fork the code and create > their own, which is their real option in this situation. I equate this with > a gang of teenagers taking over a house while the owner was out. Ok, the > house was unlocked, and had a please come in sign on the door. However, the > teenagers decide that they should rearrange the furniture, knock down a few > walls and try to get themselves put on the deed, rather than take the plans > left on the table and go build another house the way they wanted it. > > I'm done here. > _______________________________________________ hsqldb-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hsqldb-developers
