Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

["Jose Bernardo Silva" <jbs AT bandos.homelinux.com>]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:41:37 +1100, Hamish Greig wrote

> 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 

Hamish,

I have to say I'd hate to see you go, since you've made a lot of good work in
SMGL since you joined us. However, if it isn't fun for you anymore, then I
won't press you to stay.

> 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 

This was (I feel) your greatest failure. You managed to "scare" people away
from debate with some of your postings - at least I have kept quiet a couple
of times rather than getting into a argument with you. I'd rather see the good
work you've been doing than argue why I (and others) couldn't give the same
commitment to SMGL. I understand you felt very frustrated most of us couldn't
give on the same level you did, but I also almost took offense with a few of
your comments. I am not saying I am perfect (my work on SMGL has been
extremely low, and I managed to confuse myself with some decisions that had
been made on grimoire utilization), but I give what I can, as many of us do -
unfortunately, I can't give to the project as much as you can, either by lack
of time as for lack of skills.

As I said above, I am very sorry you decided to leave. Your work is very good;
you only (IMHO) need to be able to relax a bit and understand that others
might not have the same availability to give to this project. And that the way
we keep this fun for us is to only give what we can, and not blame each other
when we can't do as much as we'd like to.

> it bluntly I hate the lack of open communication within this 
> "opensource" project and I am giving up.


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