i think we can all understand your point very well, since we have many years of experience with a piece of software and know it better than the other...
but we can't forget there are still parts of the team intact. ones with over a decade of experience with softimage and management that can make decisions about who to promote. i know i freaked out when i heard halfdan was leaving but i remembered that guillaume laferriere was making significant contributions before halfdan left and that our rendering API would be just fine in his hands (i dont know if that is his official responsibility). On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Kamen Lilov <[email protected]>wrote: > On 4/17/2012 8:34 PM, Steven Caron wrote: > >> i welcome new talented developers. my only fear is they wont have the >> same relationship with the community as guillaume, luc-eric, and >> halfdan did. >> >> They also wouldn't have the same intimate relationship with the codebase > and with what works well the first time, and what doesn't... > > Just my 2c > >

