You are right, Bernat: in open source we build on an immense amount of work done by many developers all over the world and we should always recognise that properly, that is only fair.
At least for me, I contribute to open source just because I am grateful for what I received and I want to give something back. Open source software is a prime example of planet wide human collaboration as it should be. Hopefully your request will be heard by those who can fix the (probably unintentional) omission. Sven On 10 Jan 2014, at 16:52, Bernat Romagosa <tibabenfortlapala...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not sure this is the proper place to discuss this, but I just felt I had > to write it down. > > I've just been taking a look at the Phratch GoogleCode site and I've noticed > there is not a single mention of where the project comes from... As an > opposite example, when Phratch started out a couple years ago, we were really > fast and careful to put out a notice in the Scat site letting people know > that the project had been taken over by another team. > > We spent months filing out code from Scratch -a Squeak 2.8 image with barely > any tools available-, we fixed hundreds of issues, we recorded screenshots, > we documented every step we followed, we implemented a way to save and load > projects via Fuel, we got the original Scratch media plugins to work, etc. > but there is no mention of any of this anywhere. > > The amount of work we put in the -unfortunately named- Scat project is huge. > We spent more than a year (even some 3-4 months full-time) in it, and I don't > think it's egocentric at all to ask for a little recognition of who were the > people behind the original project and what was the state of Scat when the > Phratch team took over. > > I don't mean to sound angry, I'm not. I'm sure no information was omitted in > bad faith, but recognition of other people's work is something I take very > seriously. > > :) > > Best, > Bernat. > > -- > Bernat Romagosa.
