<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>I did some contributions to both trunk and Pharo :)<br>They're small and insignificant. But i'm not telling people what they<br>should do </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The board needs terms of reference, that is all I am saying. Apparently I am not the only one who thinks so.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>and not fighting over a years<br>about direction they choosing.<br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>You could battle with them all the time, but the fact is, that there<br>is a progress. And it doesn't really matter that you thinking it<br>'wrong'.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Progress in the wrong direction is not progress.</div><div><br></div><div>Having a community in which the release team is not working in irc, members of board that cant be bothered with even the simplest communication and discussion, is not progress.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Progress is good, everything else is just blabbering noise.<br>Please, understand that it is very slow process to hop on to new<br>quality level (minimal image, modular design).It takes years and</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>years.. and can't be decided politically.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You are telling me? I thought it was decided politically?</div><div><br></div><div>I put 3 years into THIS goal with the board's approval, and you scuppered me without a second thought because you were too impatient to even email me to ask how far away a release would be, and now you tell ME to be patient!!!!</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> People should realize what<br>they gaining and what they losing and why they need it. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am sure people would love to know what they are gaining and loosing, however this would require communication, and due process where the board compared actual options and proposals, and made recommendations. They could even set up healthy competition between proposals. This is not the world of the current squeak SOB.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Only then when<br>we get a critical mass, we can move. But not now.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>You sure have critical mass, but I am not sure it is the "critical" you wanted.<br><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>P.S. If you wait long enough, you'll see how corpses of your enemies<br>drifting down the river. (Chinese lore).</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Why does anyone have enemies, we are an open source project for goodness sake. We have this apparent view where the board thinks it can run the community by invoking charismatic dictatorship, over actual planning, talking and enabling amongst mutual participants within the community.</div><div><br></div><div>This mess is a mess of the board's making, no one else's, and it happened because of lack of "due process".</div><div><br></div><div>Keith</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>