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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

> Having arguments and fights and pointing fingers and getting bent out of
> shape over the way things are or are not with one thing or another isn't
> going to help us.  If the race for 1.0 is going to destroy Source Mage,
> then the race needs to end.  Either release it now and be done with it,
> release it when the Road Map says we're going to release it, regardless of
> it's state, or throw away the Road Map, because it's not worth it to lose
> good people
> over /little/ things like meeting an arbitrary deadline.

No tomatoes coming form me,  I appreciate your candour.
There is truly only one thing I am bent out of shape about. In the last year 
I 
have tried on several occasions to have a meaningful discussion about the 
roadmap and  teams not achieving their goals. My intention has always been to 
first find the problem, then find a solution and lastly fix the problem. This 
method, although efficient, has offended quite a few people. Unfortunately I 
am unable to change that, if a developer is unwilling to constructively 
discuss their own work then they should rethink volunteering for opensource 
duties. Harsh, but I think also true.
In good faith I spent a lot of time working on grimoire bugs, assuming other 
teams were also making similar progress, and expecting  1.0 to be accompanied 
by  a robust, well featured ISO and sorcery suite. This was not the case and 
so I have finally done what my conscience has been telling me to do for some 
time. I say "I want the 1.0 ISO to have features we all agreed are worthwhile 
and I will make it happen with or without the support of other people".

I think I know my worth to this project, that my perspective is accurate and 
that blunt as I am, I remain open to discussion but will not be pressured 
into compromising what I have worked so hard for.

> I /really/ don't mean to attack or belittle /any/body or any aspect of
> Source Mage.  Really.  But I believe that the path Source Mage has taken
> recently is not helpful or healthy, and we will /not/ attract more people
> to this project in it's current (mental health) state.
>
> [0] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=SourceMageRoadMap
> [1] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Meeting+log+2003-03-30
> [2] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=CurrentTeamObjectives

I won't call a meeting as I am leaving after I have finished with the 1.0 
ISO, 
but I think an extra-ordinary meeting to discuss all of this should be 
called. Now that pandoras box has been opened and people seem to be in 
agreement that  problems do exist they should be addressed in a meeting. 

Hamish

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