Hill, Greg wrote: >> What is the story with Sam? I don't remember seeing a post from him in >> the last year. Sometimes I wonder if his general absence partly due >> to the JavaScript community's fervent dislike of his Prototype.js >> library. > > I like his library, I just wish he'd test in IE when he makes major > changes that totally break functionality (like cleanWhitespace in the > latest release in IE - there have been other examples). > > I've submitted a couple patches over the last year, and some eventually > got implemented. He never said a word to me, though. Would've liked a > 'hey thanks' or even just some acknowledgement that he cared about the > community.
Here's a "me too." The first time I looked at prototype.js, I was *impressed* and I'm not one to impress easily. The code was beautiful and inspiring. I've wanted to contribute ever since. I spent a couple months helping out on dev.rubyonrails.org responding to bugs, submitting patches, helping users. I've been on this mailing list for five months now. I've had patches applied, but Sam's never acknowledged me. I'm a bit of critic of Sam-as-maintainer, but I still believe in Prototype-the-project. I *want* to help. > I really wish he would either be more involved, or release it to the > community to be maintained. As it is, I'm stuck with scriptaculous 1.5 > because I can't upgrade prototype until it's fixed. Will it ever be > fixed? Who knows? This is the problem when one person maintains total > control over a project; if he buggers off, everyone else is S.O.L. There's been discussions on the list in the past about forking and how a fork wouldn't be likely to be successful because it wouldn't be associated with RoR. To that end, I'm going to pursue getting commit rights to rails/spinoffs. Thomas, can you provide any assistance here? Do you have commit rights to spinoffs/prototype, or are you isolated to spinoffs/scriptaculous? If yes, would you be willing to apply community-discussed/approved patches? Is there a specific person associated with the SVN repositories that I should be talking to about getting a developer account? Talking to Sam has been a complete dead end for me so far. Todd Ross _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs
