Re: Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Daniel,

Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote:

> Harold, 
>
> I have been lurking on this list for a while now.  I don't know much about XFree86, or the politics, or any history.  But I read the threads that led up to your decision.  I applaud you.  You asked for something completely reasonable, and (pardon the language) David Dawes came off as a complete jackass.  
>
> I have worked with Jakarta Ant, the Eclipse Project, and Jakarta Lucene to varying degrees.  And I have never seen someone on any of those mailing lists get treated like you were.  And, as an example of a well functioning open source project, when someone new came to lucene, he turned in some quality patches over the course of about a month.  About the equivalent to what I see you commit on this mailing list in a week.  And they made him a full fledged committer.  No problems, no insults, no lie detector tests.  They voted, and it was done.
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> That it how it is supposed to work.  
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> The XFree86 organization looks like it is being run by a bunch of power hungry fools.
>
> Thanks for all of your time and work, 

No problem.  I enjoy it.

Thanks for your support.

Harold