[ros-dev] [ros-general] I am taking a break...

[Alex Ionescu]

I concur with James.

Eric, I think what you meant to say is you don't have time to work on  
ReactOS in its current state -- ie: the slow, time-consuming  
procedures and behaviors that take up more than 50% of your free time.

What if ReactOS provides you with your own branch, and the ReactOS  
project assumes the responsibility of merging your changes to trunk,  
performing the testing and regression testing. You might be afraid  
that your code will "rot" and that it would never make it inline, but  
I'm sure the people respect your work as much as I do and would make  
sure that things stay up to date (much like we sync with Wine).

This would allow you to keep committing code, have your own branch  
which at least works for you, and we'd take care of merging. Your only  
real responsibility would be to "sync up" with trunk every once in a  
while -- could even be only ever 3 months, or if you notice something  
obvious that might affect you (RPC changes, WIDL changes, SCM etc).

I know this may sound unfair to other developers, but as James pointed  
out, you deserve everyone's time, considering how much you've put in  
all this time.

On 19-Dec-08, at 9:22 PM, James Tabor wrote:

> Hi Eric!
> Eric Kohl wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Effective immediately I am taking a break from working on ReactOS  
>> for an
>> undetermined period of time. It may even be the end of my involvement
>> with ReactOS.
>>
>> There are several reasons for me to quit but the most important one  
>> is
>> lack of time. I have a pretty exhausting job and spend more than 2  
>> hours
>>  a day to commute so there is not much time left to spend on ReactOS.
>> So working on ReactOS happened on weekends only.
>>
>> After my latest patch was partially reverted, I decided that I am not
>> willing to create and maintain a development branch for  
>> improvements to
>> LSA and SAM. I am not willing to spend an hour or two each weekend  
>> for
>> branch maintenance and debugging and another two or three hours for
>> developing new code. It just does not make sense to me.
>>
>> Maybe I will be back one day, maybe I will not. Time will tell.
>>
>> Over and out!
>> Eric
>>
> Your resignation is disapproved! You are an integral part of this  
> project.
>
> You are the last of the root members of this project. We need your  
> help
> and if that means breaking ReactOS truck that is your right to do  
> so. We will
> learn to live with it. I have followed your work for years and I  
> would like
> to see you more. Based on your tenure with this project, this gives  
> you
> rights, influences and guidance to this project.
>
> Please recommence with your changes,
> James
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu