Re: [Gimp-developer] Please migrate to GitHub/CMake

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:54 PM, gregory grey wrote:

> > > Now, a person says "I'd like to suggest" and your reply is basically
> > > "f*** off".
> >
> > It's an interesting way to interpret a simple 'no'.
>
> Turning tables much? You should interpret the number of developers on
> the projects into reasons of it being so.

Irrelevant.

> > Yes, our email communication needs to improve. However, do I really
> > need to bring up our private email exchange where I explained to you
> > that most dev conversations take place on IRC and that the difficult
> > topics on the list barely ever take off?
>
> Apparently you are not too busy to participate in flame, but too busy
> to see an email from potential contributor.

I do no make infrastructure decisions. Also, thank you for
acknowledging it's a flame. Next step is to acknowledge your
responsibility for it.

> Last time I've used IRC was like 10 years ago. Another archaic tech
> I(anyone else willing to participate) have to use because why exactly?

Because it works for us.

> I'm not planning to work on GIMP any more, thank you very much.

That's OK. I'm sure you'll find your talent useful elsewhere.

> > > About your 3 cases of not responding - it's not my problem. It's your
> > > problem, as a maintainer of OSS.
> >
> > Blaming is _exactly_ what was sorely missing on the list. Thank you.
>
> Turning tables #2. You pointed to 3 times you did not get the answer
> as a reason to dump Github idea.

You completely misunderstood my reasoning.

> > GitHub is full of developers who use Vi. Stuff like node-x11 is
> > actually written by dedicated Vi users, and I can think of a very few
> > things that are more hip than node.js.
>
> https://media0.giphy.com/media/3h5pe45FM9qUM/giphy.gif

How very mature.

> > > who knows better than behaving like a jerk.
> >
> > Name-calling was sorely missing on this list too. Again, thank you.
> >
> > If you are done with that, what are, in your opinion, the actual
> > advantages of relying on GitHub other than it's full of hip people who
> > despise Vi?
>
> Turning tables #3.
>
> You know, issues, project boards, UI what does not require reloading a
> page to see the update, etc,etc.

Why do you think any of that would make a huge difference for our
particular project? What actual programming/releasing experience with
GIMP do you have?

Alex