On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Steve Lamont wrote: > It may be that I am not the right person for this job, inasmuch as my > professional responsibilities continue to evolve and my collaborative > projects continue to proliferate. > > If it is the group's consensus that someone else should assume these > responsibilities and there is a nominee, I will bow to that consensus.
> I am chastened. I cannot see it -- I am really happy with your efforts, Steve. This is not anyone's day job -- it is classic 'ship when it is right, not to a schedule' Open Source development. Stop beating yourself up to no end. Let's be frank here -- getting matters to this point has been a tremendous accomplishment -- I _greatly_ appreciate Steve's effort and interface in getting the code to a GPL status. And the fixup work afterward. A year ago, I was watching and hoping that the code would indeed GPL -- that Steve's persistence got it to that state is a major accomplishment. Once the code is free (as it is now), any one of us can set up a fork, a CVS, a bonsai, or whatever, and maintain and advocate a private tree to add features; or submit diff's ; or set up a non-primary testing tree. Seeing patches to the list or notice of private trees with proposed patches for testing would far outweigh yak-yak-ing to the mailing list, in my opinion. My $ 0.02 -- Russ herrold
