I've already sent a private email off on this, but on the list I'll leave
it at :

Kern you should be ashamed of yourself.





> I have been involved in the Bacula project for a year now.
>
>
>
> The first 9 months I spent working 6-7 days a week, 8+ hours a day:
>
>             porting Storage and the Director to Windows
>
>             rewriting the installer
>
>             redesigning the Windows build process and contributed
> improvements to the Unix build
>
>             fixing numerous Windows-specific as well as general bugs
>
>             redesigning, simplifying and improving both the Windows and
> the
> core code
>
>             porting the regression tests to Windows
>
>             migrating the Source Management from CVS to Subversion
>
>
>
> I followed all the coding conventions, reviewed every significant change
> with Kern, and did everything possible to comply with all rules (both
> those
> outlined in the Developer's Guide as well as those inferred from reading
> between the lines in Kern's emails).
>
>
>
> I spent thousands of dollars putting together a test lab for all the tape
> loader, tape drive and CD changer technologies.
>
>
>
> During the last eight weeks I've been working on reproducing and fixing a
> tape drive on Windows bug and writing a new monitor application for
> Windows.
>
>
>
> I've watched the email lists for bugs that are specific to the new
> components I've added as well as helping users with Windows specific
> install
> problems.
>
>
>
> I also worked on a couple of other open source projects with which I'm
> involved.
>
>
>
> Oh, and I caught up on some of my work that actually produces income.
>
>
>
> The one thing I didn't do was update the manual.
>
>
>
> As a result, my admin privileges for the Bacula project were removed and I
> must submit all my changes as patches for review.
>
>
>
> I've done my best to work with Kern and I thought everything was great
> until
> the last week when he started threatening me with removing all the
> software
> (Windows Server version) I'd just devoted the better part of the last year
> working on.
>
>
>
> I'm not sure what I've done to upset him, but I'm not prepared to work in
> this environment.
>
>
>
> One of the nice things about Open Source is that if you don't like the
> rules
> you can not only take your marbles and go home, you can also take the
> other
> guy's marbles too.
>
>
>
> I'll be looking into providing a supported and compatible version of the
> software for Windows.  Over time as the core code improves and diverges
> I'll
> probably also release versions for the other platforms too.
>
>
>
> I will also make sure that I pick up bug fixes from the Bacula project.
>
>
>
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