On 03/19/2013 03:32 AM, Joao Rita (Food Supply Chain & Logistics Planning) wrote: > Guys, > > Can I make one last ditch attempt to organize a conference call/IRC session, > anything where we can have a forum of open discussion between the main > parties? > > Again, I don't mind organizing it. > > J > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philipp Enoeckl [mailto:philipp.enoe...@gmail.com] > Sent: 19 March 2013 10:08 > To: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Scid-users] Project merge > > > Am 2013-03-19 08:06, schrieb Steve A: >> Fulvio hasn't really looked at my project as far as i can tell, and i >> get the impression he is not interested. >> >> So perhaps we can close this thread. > Well, i am just a user, but it makes me really sad and frustated, there > apparently will be no merge. > I do think, scid needs and deserves an active maintainer, active development > and an active community! > > Right now, people "in charge" didn't even care enough to update the homepage. > How will you get attention for building an active community, if you let the > world believe, the project is dead already? Until today, i thought, you don't > have the permissions to alter the homepage, but looking at the homepage > today, i find a new screenshot! > Don't get me wrong, i am really grateful, i can use somebode elses work, but > honestly: something has gone completely wrong here in the last few years and > i don't mean the code. > There is also no real homepage, no wiki, no documentation, no nothing. > (There is the basic tutorial from 2003, written by Shane, of course) > > I am a user, i said: > My only "contribution" to it would have been one line to make building scid > easier. Well, actually that one line never made it into the configure file > [because nobody cared], so my contribution is really zero. > Yes, i once offered to help elsewhere (update tutorial, start a wiki...), but > i never even got a reply, so either there are just too many volunteers > around, i am - in the eyes of sb - just too stupid to help, or just nobody > cared (again). > > I really don't get it: you just let scid die (harsh words, i know), you don't > care about anything except code lines (which are "hidden" and not even linked > to the homepage), but the moment, somebody else wants to take over and has > proven himself to put good effort in this software (and not just code, just > compare the 2 homepages), there is a big uprise and promises, that there will > be changes, an update, a community, heaven on earth and whatnot. > > Yes, i am really grateful, developers let us users use "their" software. > And yes, i also think, we would really need somebody like Steve. > > Right now it seems, things will stay as they are and the developers are > happy. Good for them, fine with me, i understand, its "their" software and > they can do whatever they want. It is just so frustating, when you see, it > could be so much better, if people would put their ego aside. > > As a user, the moment, scidvspc gets the docking mode, i will switch and i > think, i will not be the only one. Scid has the "brand" (simply much more > people know scid than scidvspc), scidvspc will be better( i think, with > docking feature, there is no real doubt about it), it would just make so much > sense to combine these projects from a user point of perspective. > > Just my 2c, i hope, i haven't been too personal, in case sombebody feels > insulted, i apologize. Really: to me, it is not so much about code lines and > maybe a don't appreciate that work as much as i should, but when it comes to > the "rest" nobody IMHO wants to take care of except Steve. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free > today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users > > > ********************************************************************************* > This e-mail has been sent from Co-operative Group Limited, an > industrial and provident > society or from one of its subsidiaries which include Somerfield > Stores Limited. 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It is evident that Fulvio isn't moving forward.
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