[hobbit] Vigilante releases

Tim McCloskey morphine at zwizard.com
Thu Nov 6 23:12:34 CET 2008


Henrik,

Oh the joys of releasing your well maintained product to the masses :)
The vigilante actions remind me of some of the internal antics at the 
company I work for.  True thinkers are often overshadowed by the 
impatient masses.  I feel your pain....

Best Regards,
-t


Henrik Størner wrote:
> OK, I'm not the type who gets offended easily, but this did make my 
> blood pressure go up a bit:
> 
> In <BAY138-DS1620B45379321618FC0139F1F0 at phx.gbl> "T.J. Yang" <tj_yang at hotmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> Jon Boede wrote:
>>> Out of random curiosity... why hasn't anybody applied the all in one =
>>> patch and put a hobbit 4.2.1 or something up on SourceForge??
> 
> 
>> done.
> 
>> 1. 4.2.1 tar ball is here:
> [snip]
>> 2. 4.2.1 Readme file.
> [snip]
> 
> 
> TJ, I hope You did this with the best of intentions. But I'm really 
> offended that You did it without at least telling me about it first. 
> My personal e-mail address is well known, and dropping me a mail 
> first would have been the polite thing to do. If You'd done that,
> such a release could have been done quickly with my "official"
> blessing.
> 
> Instead, You've made me angry and created a mess - there's now one
> more place where some random version of Hobbit can be found. And on
> top of it all You've given it the look of an official patch by 
> putting a "4.2.1" label on it.
> 
> 
> All I'm asking for is that all of you *think* about what you do.
> If you're frustrated about the next release not arriving, do
> something to move it forward - i.e. grab the current source-trunk
> from the Subversion archive, use it and send bug reports. Or
> patches. Or write docs.
> 
> 
> Henrik (in a rather frustrated mood)
> 
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