4 Dec
2005
4 Dec
'05
12:52 p.m.
Personally, I don't mind Alex.
My only issue is I do often feel like I'm *working for him*, rather than
contributing to an open-source project. For example, I discussed sound
coding and then left it for a little while, and he got on my back about it.
And occasionally if I ask a question, I'll get a kind of "are you
stupid?" response (something similar anyway) which can be a little
degrading.
He did confuse me in the chat which Exception posted, as at the time I
asked about SVN access. I'm pretty sure originally he said SVN write
access was restricted to the few people who commit the most, so I
assumed I didn't fit in to that bracket and didn't bother asking for
write access.
Despite all this, Alex is very helpful. Certainly no reason why he
should leave the project completely as he does a lot of work, but
open-source development I always believed to be a "do what you want to
do, when you want to to it" concept (obviously not including things like
deliberately breaking the build or whatever!) And it's a learning curve.
It doesn't bother me too much though and I wouldn't leave the project
over it myself. I'm used to people saying "get on with it" and "do it
this way because this way is right" so I guess that's probably my way of
learning.
Casper Hornstrup wrote:
[15:48] <CIA-8> sgasiorek * r19366
reactos/lib/aclui/ (aclui.rc aclui_Pl.rc): added Polish resource
[15:49] <tamlin> Brezenbak: I disagree. That's an explicit read.
[15:49] <GedMurphy> sgasiorek ??
[15:49] <Fireball> silverblade?
[15:49] * Exception wait for Alex to say who is that? ;-)
[15:49] <Fireball> seems no
[15:49] <Alex_Ionescu> Exception: its an inside joke
[15:49] <Alex_Ionescu> who the heck is sgasiorek
[15:49] <Exception> lol
[15:50] <silverblade> yes?
[15:50] * Naru-Ayato has joined #reactos
[15:50] <Alex_Ionescu> oh right i forgot, now everyone and his grandma gets an svn
account
For several weeks there have been complaints every time I have granted a new developer
commit access. This has not only been from
Alex, but also 2-3 other committers or so IIRC. What is the problem here? Giving other
developers commit access, will not "degrade"
your own status as a committer. If you have a problem with someone getting commit access,
then bring it up on the mailing list, but
be prepared to come up with better arguments than "I don't know him".
It's innocent until proven guilty with regard to getting
commit access.