[ros-dev] Grievance

[James Tabor]

Hello,

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey at reactos.org> wrote:
>
> On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:21 AM, James Tabor wrote:
>
>> 1) The Project Coordinator Should attempt to make decisions according
>> to the consensus of the Project Members.
>> Mr. Bragin is making procedural changes with out the full consensus of
>> all Project Members.
>
> When a so-called "audit" problem happened, it was almost the same
> (personal problems between developers, namely Hartmut Birr, Ge van
> Geldorp, Casper Hornstrup and Alex Ionescu, which resulted in mutual
> charges of various bad and made up things, and gladly picked up by
> some people related to Wine team to suppress ReactOS project
> development).
>
> And yes, James, there was a democracy back then, and all decisions
> were made according to the consensus of Project Members.
> But do you remember what this led to? And where would it go if Mr.
> Geldorp would not help (even though he wasn't "at my side"!) and Mr.
> Bragin would not back up the repository and open it up for further
> development?
>
> As for Repository Coordinator, why made up positions where there is
> no need? Coordinate what? And yes, I not only assumed, but took full
> control, in order to prevent situations like "audit fiasco" in future.
>
Used in the beginning to control us and manipulate the project. I
guess based on you explanation you have assumed full control of this
project and you are asserting your self. The problem now, we do not
need a dictator and the quickest way to run off developers like myself
would do the very thing you are doing now. You must realize I'm not
the only one that thinks this way.

> If you see how much outburst and disclosing private information
> (vulnerable to at least one person!) Magnus Olsen did, it,
> unfortunately!, proofs he's mentally unstable, and can not take part
> in this project. He's welcome to send in patches though, I won't mind
> reviewing them, since legally his work could go into ReactOS repository.
>
> If there are further questions, don't hesitate to continue
> discussion. I want to clear this up once and for good. One thing
> which I ensure you, there will be no committers who work against the
> project and open source.
>
>
> With the best regards,
> Aleksey Bragin.


This is very formal and is not in any way threatening. I would
appreciate having your last comment be recanted due to it creates a
hostile environment. We are gentlemen here.


Thank you for your time answering this,
Sincerely,
James Tabor