Before you shut my account off I made you this offer: On 8/31/05, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quit being a pain and write a response to the article if you don't > like it. Censorship is not the answer. Open debate in a public format > is the correct response. If you want me to I'll add your reponse to > the end of the article.
I will still include your response if you want to write one. On 8/31/05, Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:50 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 8/30/05, Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 'As a whole, the X.org community barely has enough resources to build a > > > single server. Splitting these resources over many paths only results in > > > piles of half finished projects. I know developers prefer working on > > > whatever interests them, but given the resources available to X.org, > > > this approach will not yield a new server or even a fully-competitive > > > desktop based on the old server in the near term. Maybe it is time for > > > X.org to work out a roadmap for all to follow.' > > > > > > You lose. > > > > Daniel Stone, the administrator of freedesk.org, has just taken it > > upon himself to censor my article on the state of the X server. His > > lame excuse is that I have stopped working the core of Xegl. It > > doesn't seem to matter that I contributed 1,000s of lines of code to > > fd.o that I am continuing to do maintenance on. So much for this being > > a free desktop. > > Sigh. As I explained in the long thread we had in private mail, I have > done several cleanups now on inactive accounts and projects. You are > absolutely not the first, and will not be the last. I have not done > such sweeps for a while, because I have not had time. The realisation > that your account was doing nothing other than hosting an HTML page now > that I have some amount of time to look at fd.o again was enough to spur > me to start a cleanup, and indeed, I am in the process of pinging many > other dormant contributors; many of which have merely stopped working on > X and may return, rather than having posted long statements of > resignation to the list. > > And, as I explained, a simple statement of intent from you that you > intend to resume active development will be enough to justify your > account being renewed. > > (Alternately, if another administrator re-enables your account, I will > not stop this. I'm not the sole admin, not by far ...) > > Possibly impolitic and bad timing, sure. But my intent was not to > censor. > > > Can some else provide a place for me to host the article? > > Is the wiki insufficient? It is currently hosting such insignificant > articles as the 6.9/7.0 release plan, f.e. ... > > -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
