Hello, I'm sad it has come to this but I feel I must report a case of
misuse of power on the LMMS GH tracker. Issue #2556
<https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/2556>, which has been open since
February 2016, containing 12 participants and 60 comments has been locked
by Tres (@tresf) over him feeling "threatened by personal attacks". This is
the comment that got the thread locked
<https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/2556#issuecomment-301805379> and in
the following reply Tres explains why he is locking the thread. I'll let
anyone interested draw their own conclusions if there have been any
personal attacks to be found there or not.
I will be the first to admit that I'm not overly careful with when I write
or talk but since Tres directly asked me before in that thread to refrain
from any "ad hominen" comments (or, more precisely, what he felt
constituted "ad hominen" remarks), I did try my best to be as neutral as
possible later on. All I can say is that I don't know who Tres is and
frankly, I don't even care or want to know. I wouldn't take the time to
deliberately offend someone I don't know on the web, more less so someone
who helps create a project I'm invested in. My intention in these issues
has been only to help with LMMS as an open-source enthusiast and user of
the great program that I see being developed on almost a daily basis. Here
is an example of another issue I opened
<https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/3360> earlier this year, to show my
good intentions towards the project.
Having #2556 locked, myself (@tukkek) and Simon (@probonopd), who were the
only users there making progress towards resolving the issue (in my own
personal view, not meant as a personal attack towards anyone else) were
excluded from the conversation. In an attempt to leave whatever personal
issues behind and move forward with a solution, I opened a new issue
<https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/3558> and pinged Simon to try and
continue to work on a pull request. As I said before, I'm not involved with
the project so maybe it's not my place to try and make a PR happen but I
did it anyway in good will and not trying to offend anyone's sensibilities.
What happened again is that Tres immediately closed the issue, even when he
hadn't been mentioned there at all. He is now clearly out on a witch-hunt
and made the issue personal, himself.
Again, I'm not an active developer with LMMS, just a regular user who knows
enough to try and help with reporting and resolving issues on open-source
projects I'm personally invested in. I don't know how the LMMS team handles
such issues but it's clear to me that there has been a misuse (if not a
clear-cut abuse) of power here. I believe my job here is only to report
that this is happening, let the team know and take whatever appropriate
actions (or none at all). If you want to keep me in the conversation,
though, just "reply to all" since I'm not subscribed to the mailing list.
I'm also sending this to Simon since I believe that all we wanted was to
help the project and we were arbitrarily kicked out of it for no good
reason - not once, but systematically. I wouldn't be writing this email
hadn't this happened twice in a row.
I don't believe this entire scenario shows a welcoming stance to people
trying to help with your project and I felt it was my duty to formally
report this. Having done it, I defer to the LMMS development team.
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