Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 
> In any Open Source project, it's quite normal for a developer to go off
> and do their own thing for a while before submitting or landing the
> code.  This is especially and triply true if they're doing some
> fundamental changes and don't actually know whether they'll work.
> 

Its normal for a developer not to push things into mainline every night. To 
drown their work in secrecy is quite out of the ordinary. I've seen developers 
surface with code they hadn't mentioned before, but I've /never/ heard of an 
open source developer refusing to show code they were explicitly asked for.

> 
> I don't agree that having more developers work on a single piece of code
> somehow magically improves productively.  I'm following things down a
> particular rabbit hole that interests me.  If I have to stop and try and
> explain the changes I'm trying to make to others, so they can do it for
> me, and then review their work afterwards then things are going to take
> much longer.
>

Last time I mentioned I was working on implementing what had been discussed you 
said you didn't want it, so I abandoned it (this was an attempt at implementing 
things as you had envisioned them, not the state machine). This isn't you in 
the corner with your code. You've taken the project and run out of the room 
with it. If that wasn't your intention, then you need to figure out why your 
actions have had this effect and make some attempt to organize the community 
such that it doesn't grind to a standstill every time you feel like popping off 
for tea with the mad hatter.

> 
> This sudden need for urgency and rush confuses me.  Upstart has been
> stable for two years now, in that time anyone could have done the work
> I'm doing now.
> 

And everyone was waiting for you to agree on what work you would accept changes 
on. And when you did you took the code aside and said "I'll do it myself."

--CJD

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