On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Christopher Stone <chris.stone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yea, I could, but in the case of Axel Thimm he has caused me, and > countless others, many headaches so I wont be tactful. In addition, > it is a stretch to call Axel Thimm a "contributor", unless you want to > count bugs, headaches, forked code and broken systems a contribution. I can't let this stand. This public character assassination absolutely must stop. As an outgoing Board member I am appalled by this sort of deliberate attempt to go out of your way to besmirk a fellow contributor's direct contributions to this project. The accusation that Axel does not constructively contribute to the packaging process is easily contradicted by looking at the package database. Here a subset of Axel's direct contributions to Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/athimm And more to the point, there are many public 3rd party repositories out there which conflict to varying degrees with the official Fedora repositories. Do you plan to ridicule each and every contributor who runs a 3rd party repo on the side which conflicts? Any Fedora contributor which chooses to run a repository on the side is their choice and its a users choice to mix and match repositories or not. I may disagree with Axel's choice to spend as much energy as he does maintaining Atrpms and supporting the userbase...but I'm not going to single him out and ridicule him publicly for making that choice when others continue to make that choice as well. Axel if you are still reading this, for what its worth, I'm extremely sorry that the disagreements over Atrpms are being publicly discussed on this fedora mailinglist in the form of a personal attack. There is a very long history here, and I thought we had for the most part moved past most of the personal demonizing at least in the fedora mailinglists proper. if I have in any way done anything to foster this level of personal animosity in any discussion concerning the technical issues around 3rd party repos and package conflicts I sincerely apologize. -jef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
