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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 06:41:37PM +1100, Hamish Greig wrote:
> After this 1.0 ISO has been finished and released I will retire from ISO 
> lead. 
> I WILL fix any critical bugs if they exist, but my intention is to leave a 
> suitable infrastructure so anyone can take over and continue the work.
> I will also be retiring from grimoire duties. I may continue to use SMGL 
> and 
> file bugs, or I may not, I can't say at this point in time. 
> The simple reason I am leaving is that working on SMGL is no longer fun for 
> me.
> Despite all the work I have done in the last year, I now find myself 
> working 
> harder than ever before, trying to achieve what we all wanted but no-one  
> managed to organise or implement. This is frustrating as hell. I know there 
> is no more I could have done, I spent hours working on grimoire bugs, I 
> tried to start discussion of teams roadmap goals and their lack of 
> achievement several times, I tried to communicate with other developers 
> openly in an attempt to help them plan their work and give them support if 
> they needed it. I attended all the meetings and made myself available on 
> IRC 
> and mail lists. I filed bugs when I found them, and posted comments to 
> others 
> when I had input relevant to that bug. At times my frustration even caused 
> me 
> to be rude to people, I don't apologise for this, I do however wish I had 
> managed to get my dissatisfaction across another way. 
> To put it bluntly I hate the lack of open communication within this 
> "opensource" project and I am giving up.

I'd really hate to see you go Hamish, SMGL wouldn't be where it is today
without your great work. Any chance we could convince you to stay? There
have been quite some bumps and problems in the last few months, but it
feels like it's getting better recently, though that's only my opinion
of course.

> I will only announce and release  1.0 ISO when I consider it it has been 
> fully 
> tested and is ready, regardless of external pressures.
> 
> Hamish

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