Re: [Gnu-arch-users] the way forward

[Pierce T. Wetter III]

> accused of the gratuitous disruption and destruction of a public
> project that, prior to your assembly under the financial umbrella
> of a wealthy hobbyist, was muddling through and showed considerable
> promise of a bright future.   What combination of maliciousness,
> ignorance, misplaced arrogance, and just plain stupidity led to
> such thuggery is a question for the ages but the consequences of
> your entirely voluntary behavior is laid bare in everything from
> the code itself to my circumstances.   At least we can agree
> on this much: you were well funded in the effort.

  Whereas you Tom, are not well funded in your thuggery. Clearly,  
you can be a thug without money, all you need is email.

  I'm all for the violent exchange of opinions (I blog under the  
moniker Opinionated Bastard) but I don't think baz destroyed tla, I  
think tla self destructed on its own. In large part that was due to  
the following things that happened:

   1. The lead developer didn't have time to keep it going due to  
personal issues.

   2. The lead developer wouldn't relinquish control of integration,  
and ended up insulting the person doing the integration work. Said  
person quit.

   3. The lead developer decided to rewrite the project from  
scratch, so the main line stagnated.

  It's sort of ironic that the lead developer in a distributed  
versioning system was able to have such a chokehold on development,  
but it was true. All of these would have been death to any other open  
source project.

  Enter baz. Baz was pretty obviously "tla without TL". That, more  
then anything, is why it succeeded. So _arch_ is alive and well as  
baz, though tla is dead...therefore, baz is a success!

  You can criticize baz and canonical all you want, but the reality  
is that they were doing the work. They seem to be continuing to do  
work, and ultimately, that's what open source is all about. It's also  
what arch was all about, right? Permitting lots of people to  
collaborate on software.

  Tom, I wish you luck. But you might want to tone your emails down.  
There's a difference between being opinionated and obnoxious. Mostly,  
your emails are just obnoxious. I didn't get that opinion from  
reading anything James wrote. I got that opinion from reading things  
YOU wrote. So tone down the paranoia as well.

  Bottom line, baz wouldn't have succeeded if Canonical hadn't been  
able to recruit non-Canoncial people to work on it, and they were  
able to do that because you've gone out of your way to be difficult  
to work with.

  Pierce

P.S.

 I do sincerely wish you luck Tom. I do alternative healing (Qi  
Gong) as a hobby, and so its pretty clear to me that you have some  
sort of health issue that's causing you to be so angry. I hope you  
figure that out.