Re: The Game

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 15:44 -0700, Adam Megacz wrote:
> I've said many times that I really don't think it's a good idea for
> people to be developing widgets against the core right now.  The API
> is clearly not stable.

You said once, several days ago.  And the core API had been stable until
about 3 weeks ago when you got a sudden urge to change it without
notifying us.  Hell, I had to spot something missing in the reference
and ask before we even found out.

You're incredibly inconsiderate considering how many people contribute
to Ibex.  It's like you don't respect us enough to explain or discuss
the updates.

> Mainly because that's the fastest way to move.  That's how we got
> Lithium.

Fewer people were working on Lithium.  Was anybody other than you
working on Lithium?

By accepting the hard work of people like Brian and David, you
effectively make the project a community project.

And as a community project you are fucking obligated to tell us what you
are doing.  Period.

If you want to just make undiscussed changes, then rip out everybody
else's work then nobody will complain about you being an asshole.

I swear, for every two moments that you're brilliant, you have a moment
of stupifyingly arrogance.  See bug 537 and it's history as an example.

At the moment we just take the bad with the good, but there'll be a
point where people get sick and tired of you behaving like this.

> "it will just work" isn't flippant or smart-ass.

Yes it is.

> And if Charlie
> didn't post 1,000 messages each day, I'd give longer explanations.

Bollocks.

I've asked clear yes/no questions about the API changes.  As you don't
care enough to answer them, I'm uncertain you'd spent 20-30 minutes
writing clear explanations for each of your many choices.

> I'm not playing you.

No, you're not.  You're disrespecting everybody.  And, personally, I'm
really bored of it.

> Apparently Charlie has some sort of situation where somebody is paying
> him to do that.  I'm glad that he got this setup, but I'm not going to
> let his paycheck influence my development plans.

I never asked you to.  I only ever asked you reply on some important API
changes that you're too high and mighty to explain to us.

I'm sorry we're all not intelligent enough to read your fucking mind.

Given the constant interaction I have with every developer on this
project, I'm going to give you a stark warning of how pissed off every
body associated with Ibex is getting.

As a software engineer and hacker, you're an utter genius.  As a project
manager you're a complete let down.  Moving to darcs was the _only_ good
decision you've made in the last 12 months.  And only because it's
allowed everybody else to develop independently of xwt.org and hence not
have to rely on you.

Wake up Adam.  Please.
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
Online @ www.charlietech.com