Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Tue Oct 28 18:41:00 GMT 2003
Daniel,
Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote:
> Harold,
>
> I have been lurking on this list for a while now. I don't know much about XFree86, or the politics, or any history. But I read the threads that led up to your decision. I applaud you. You asked for something completely reasonable, and (pardon the language) David Dawes came off as a complete jackass.
>
> I have worked with Jakarta Ant, the Eclipse Project, and Jakarta Lucene to varying degrees. And I have never seen someone on any of those mailing lists get treated like you were. And, as an example of a well functioning open source project, when someone new came to lucene, he turned in some quality patches over the course of about a month. About the equivalent to what I see you commit on this mailing list in a week. And they made him a full fledged committer. No problems, no insults, no lie detector tests. They voted, and it was done.
>
> That it how it is supposed to work.
>
> The XFree86 organization looks like it is being run by a bunch of power hungry fools.
>
> Thanks for all of your time and work,
No problem. I enjoy it.
Thanks for your support.
Harold
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