Jay! Another sleepiness night due to the stress of how to deal with unplanned actions of others. I'm not one who thrives on stress, and not one who enjoys living off 2hrs of sleep. I hate existing like this, it's neither healthy for my short or long term health.
What makes things difficult is that I really care about the success of the OpenSceneGraph and VulkanSceneGraph projects. it's important to me that people who use them/will use them have a positive experience. This is why I work beyond my normal working hours to make each releases are a stable as I can get then, why I work hard to fix bugs. Part of it is also caring about the IP side, making sure don't step on patents, copyright or trademarks, My poor kids have to put up with my lecturing them on the importance of respecting copyright, not copying music, not watching bootlegged videos, what the freedoms and responsibilities that we have. When it comes the OpenSceneGraph and VulkanSceneGraph is not just an academic, when it comes to other viewing these projects as potentially infringing it's my neck on the line, and as I'm the primarily earner in my household, it's my family security that is on the line too. When things happen that on the IP front that I haven't be cleared is seriously concerning. It doesn't matter whether it's well intentioned, a mis-step on this front could have significant consequences for me and my family. This is one area of the project that I absolutely need full control of, we have to get it right, we can't afford mistakes. In this instance things have got out of my control, hopefully it's just a benign incident, but at this point in time I have no gauge on what the risks might be. Managing risk is the most effective way to manage stress, so unfortunately until I know where the chips will fall on this one it's going to have to be something I'll have to live with and hope for the best. And yes, this of stress is what keeps me awake at night. While I've tried ti coax this thread in the right direction and away from unplanned actions, it's happened. I clearly wasn't direct enough with instructions to others. Things happened that I were unexpected to me, I really didn't consider not being briefed before any Khronos outreach occurred and not having the opportunity to refine wording, or regulate the time to one that worked with my own schedule. You can't predict everything everyone might do or not do, and at what time, Normally I work on the approach that sharing more information is better than sharing less, I'm naturally open in life and source code, it's the fabric of my being. In this instance, going public about the VulkanSceneGraph project so early in it's life looks to have been a mistake. This thread, and the mis-steps taken, would never happened had I just quietly got on with the project, and gone public when I had concrete answers, had a chance to approach Khronos on my own terms and when the timing was right. I guess we all have regrets in our careers, I just never expected that sharing news about a new open source project would be one of them... _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
