To be fair, the "overwhelming" negative feedback has been related to license
changes and removal of prior authors, *not* the move to bitbucket. I think
this is to be expected as those are rather significant non-technical changes.
The move to bitbucket is a good one, as it should arguably encourage
development... The other changes to licensing and contribution beaurocracy not
so much...
I for one applaud your hard work over the years and think you have produced a
great piece of software. I, like others, do not fully understand the
motivation for the licensing changes... And removing the AUTHORS file seems
unnecessarily harsh to those who have contributed, however small...
----- Reply message -----
From: "Jan-Henrik Haukeland" <h...@tildeslash.com>
To: "The monit developer list" <monit-dev@nongnu.org>
Subject: fyi
Date: Tue, Feb 18, 2014 7:00 AM
Hi
The last few days we’ve been thinking about closing down our mailing lists.
1. After we put the Monit repository online and were looking forward to
revitalising work on Monit, we have been overwhelmed by the negative feedback.
This have been both depressing and a bit unfair IMHO.
2. In the old days, a development mailing list made sense, but today with
bitbucket, pull requests and issue tracker the need for a list is no longer so
important.
Over the years, 95% of Monit has been developed by the team and substantial
contributions have always been low to non-existing. Any contributions have
therefor always been appreciated, but never expected.
After some existential thinking the last few days, we still enjoy hacking on
Monit, we all need a hobby, right? We also have some interesting functional
and technical ideas we want to realise and see how works out before we decide
to shutdown and do something else. Anyway, please forgive this rant.
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