Rick Langschultz wrote:
Don't get me wrong, reactos is a great programming idea. The way some people do things is not necessarily what the community would want.
I 100% agree with both those statements. Sadly this is the point in your email agree with.
As a long term web developer I had an interest in VFS implementation of NTFS over FAT or other filesystem. Creating a private mailing list not available to the community restricts information from getting to developers that want to continue to develop reactos, whether they commit or not.
We arent withholding information that would even be considered "somewhat" useful to new developers.
Everyone has the right to develop what they think ReactOS needs.
How are we preventing this with a private mailing list? Bugzilla is still open, the svn is still open. We are still active on ros-dev, and in IRC.
Personally I think ReactOS needs stable Networking, a more stable and secure filesystem, and service implementation. I also think that building a universal install disk would be great -- install on PowerPC, intel, arm, all on one cd would be great. I am not willing to give up on programming projects so I will continue developing code, but when the audit is complete I just hope 99% of the community is there to back ReactOS up...
No one asked you to give up on working with ROS. You somehow took a simple comment someone made about a private mailing list that only has commiters on it to mean that we banished others from working on ROS.
Brandon