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Re: Stable branch will freeze.
From: |
Marius Vollmer |
Subject: |
Re: Stable branch will freeze. |
Date: |
16 Mar 2002 01:08:15 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:
> From: Marius Vollmer <address@hidden>
> Date: 15 Mar 2002 20:54:44 +0100
>
> Please reconsider. It would be sad to lose your contributions, but I
> think we could manage.
>
> of course everyone can manage (to varying degrees), that's not the
> point. the point is that declarations of power [...]
My motivation was not to demonstrate or gain power but to take more
responsibility. I should have explained myself better when announcing
the decision.
I can now see that the way I announced my decision to really, finally
and utterly freeze the 1.6 branch pissed off the people who were
actively improving it. I didn't intent this, of course, and I'm sorry
about that. For me, it was a technical decision that should clarify
the status of the 1.6 branch and help it to fulfill its intended
purpose.
Maybe we should have discussed it first, but I knew from the way the
1.6 branch has developed that we would need to be really strict about
the freeze if it should have a chance of succeeding. So I just went
ahead and demonstrated my willingness to be strict by just announcing
that the branch is now frozen, period.
> are not as constructive as recording (somewhere): your policy, your
> plan, your work-in-progress, your requests for help or collaboration
> (if needed), and your general openness to feedback. some of these
> can be informally recorded (like in mailing list archives), some are
> more useful when detailed in a special place that encourages review
> and update.
Sometimes it helps just to do things instead of talking about them.
> if anyone has read this far, they might be wondering, what is the point
> asking for write privs removal? well, the nature of guile (and any free
> software) collaborative effort is that there is really no such thing as
> removing write privs to the source (people just snarf the repo and hack
> local source). the question was an attempt to determine your policy and
> maturity level, so as to be able to fine-tune my trust model and plan
> for your actions.
Thanks for letting me know. What did you deduce from my response?
- Re: Stable branch will freeze., (continued)
Re: Stable branch will freeze., Evan Prodromou, 2002/03/16