On 16 Dec 2009, at 00:41, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> Piece by piece, increasing the growth of community's knowledge about
> what the Bob is.
>
> You can sell anything, if you know how to get people interested.
> Keith, your main fault is that you don't care about selling it to
> people, instead you quit. No matter how great product is, it  can't
> sell itself.

I don't care about promoting of documenting Bob because because, I  
can't. I haven't been paid since April, and the actions of the board  
etc have a lot to do with that. Writing this email,  coding Bob, or  
even writing emails about Bob doesn't pay the bills. The code is all  
there. Seaside users didn't need documentation. You lot (aka the  
board) collectively turned working with squeak from being a joy to  
being a nightmare.

Secondly, I am not going to compete, I don't have the will or energy  
to compete. I shouldn't be put into the position of having to compete.  
The board has a process of accepting proposals precisely because open  
competition of ideas, and whims in the market place isn't going to be  
of any use if you want to plan an approach properly.  We were supposed  
to be a collaborating community, and Andreas turned it into something  
completely different in a single email, he should have come to me and  
asked how he could serve the existing vision, instead he chose to  
replace it, without discussion.

You either want the vision or you don't, if you want it contribute to  
it, don't compete against it. I am not able to document Bob or promote  
it because I don't have the time, energy, motivation or will to do so.  
Having been sucked dry by having everything I ever said or did  
systematically ignored now you turn on your wounded, accusing me of  
corroding the atmosphere.

This corrosion was an inevitable consequence of having two leaders who  
are tasked with the same job. The board followed a path which had  
inevitable consequences. This fraction was the inevitable path chosen  
by the board. Any one with half a brain would have seen it coming. I  
didn't do anything to cause it, or to corrode anything.

I quit fundamentally because you cant work with people who treat you  
like shit, or people whose organizational structure and policies  
inevitably will result in people being treated like shit. All it takes  
is for one new person to be elected to the board, and Andreas could  
find all of his work discarded too. If there anyone who would like to  
run for the board with the ticket "Lets build the next squeak on pharo  
core", I for one will vote for you, and we can throw this unplanned,  
unmanageable trunk chaos thing away.

I have repeatedly stated that until the board has established its  
terms of engagement there is nothing more that can be done, and having  
watched 4 years of work be routinely discarded piece by piece, I don't  
feel inclined to throw more good effort after bad.

However I do think that it behoves me to point out whenever I can just  
how much time and effort the boards actions have wasted, and how much  
code and progress they have thrown in the bin, because those "terms of  
engagement" are still needed.

Keith