[ros-dev] My attitude

[Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood]

Personally, I don't mind Alex.

My only issue is I do often feel like I'm *working for him*, rather than 
contributing to an open-source project. For example, I discussed sound 
coding and then left it for a little while, and he got on my back about it.

And occasionally if I ask a question, I'll get a kind of "are you 
stupid?" response (something similar anyway) which can be a little 
degrading.

He did confuse me in the chat which Exception posted, as at the time I 
asked about SVN access. I'm pretty sure originally he said SVN write 
access was restricted to the few people who commit the most, so I 
assumed I didn't fit in to that bracket and didn't bother asking for 
write access.

Despite all this, Alex is very helpful. Certainly no reason why he 
should leave the project completely as he does a lot of work, but 
open-source development I always believed to be a "do what you want to 
do, when you want to to it" concept (obviously not including things like 
deliberately breaking the build or whatever!) And it's a learning curve.

It doesn't bother me too much though and I wouldn't leave the project 
over it myself. I'm used to people saying "get on with it" and "do it 
this way because this way is right" so I guess that's probably my way of 
learning.


Casper Hornstrup wrote:

>[15:48] <CIA-8> sgasiorek * r19366 reactos/lib/aclui/ (aclui.rc aclui_Pl.rc): added Polish resource
>[15:49] <tamlin> Brezenbak: I disagree. That's an explicit read.
>[15:49] <GedMurphy> sgasiorek ??
>[15:49] <Fireball> silverblade?
>[15:49] * Exception wait for Alex to say who is that? ;-)
>[15:49] <Fireball> seems no
>[15:49] <Alex_Ionescu> Exception: its an inside joke
>[15:49] <Alex_Ionescu> who the heck is sgasiorek
>[15:49] <Exception> lol
>[15:50] <silverblade> yes?
>[15:50] * Naru-Ayato has joined #reactos
>[15:50] <Alex_Ionescu> oh right i forgot, now everyone and his grandma gets an svn account
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>For several weeks there have been complaints every time I have granted a new developer commit access. This has not only been from
>Alex, but also 2-3 other committers or so IIRC. What is the problem here? Giving other developers commit access, will not "degrade"
>your own status as a committer. If you have a problem with someone getting commit access, then bring it up on the mailing list, but
>be prepared to come up with better arguments than "I don't know him". It's innocent until proven guilty with regard to getting
>commit access.
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