Re: Loose ends? [Was: autocompletion]

Jeff,



I fear this will be a rather inferior reply to the one I originally

composed. Some programs are less reliable than one might think.



First, I must apologise. I know I have been very snarky at times over

this autocomplete fisaco, but wasn't actually being sarcastic in the

paragraph you quoted or really anywhere else in that mail. I did really

want to clarify that situation.



On the 22nd I sent you an email asking about how the freeze would relate

to specific things; the helper chooser, external download handlers,

possibly ricardo's toolbar stuff. I was really hoping for a reply on

that so as to establish the practicality of going forward with the

gnome thing. Then of course, the whole autocompletion mess, and I went

through that hoping that each mail that appeared from you would answer

my questions; that not being the case, I figuratively sat on my hands

(though I'm actualy kept plenty busy by work). I can well understand

if the the fact I considered that an email that really needed a response

got lost in all the noise.



Ultimately, I think the whole situation indicates that it was never

going to be practical with the current maintainership situation. I do

not have the mandate to push forward on the gnome thing; number of 

posts and noise does not a leader make. Perhaps it is for the best; 

now we can sit down and try to gain some coordination and direction

without being commited before the event.



I do try my best to get along with people; I find being antagonistic and

alienating to be a fruitless course of endeavour, almost always losing one

more than it gains, yet one would observe that I seem to have been acting

in a manner befitting such a goal. My natural inclination is towards apathy

with regard to many things, so it is perhaps unsurprising that when I am

motivated to care about something, I do so with considerable passion, and

such is my position with regard to galeon. I am very much in the old unix 
tradition which is clearly incompatible with the current direction of the gnome 
project which seems to be pretty much the one galeon is headed at the moment. 
Perhaps I am the dinosaur who doesn't recognise that it's time to leave, but all
the same I care about galeon and where it is going. If I cannot speak up for 
what I believe is the right thing to do, then I am simply a code monkey doing 
someone else's work for them. So I apologise for the way I go about these 
things; one's goals are ill served if one pursues them in a way that alienates.


As of late, I have begun to wonder if galeon is actually a program or mearly a 
subject to be argued over.



--phil


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