Almost everybody is aware of Costin time limitations and respects the fact
that his work on Tomcat is purely voluntary (he is not paid to do it).
Everybody respects Craig effort - including Costin (it sure looks so from
his postings).
In fact, Jon is the only person trying to turn this into a lousy Costin
versus Craig war.
Craig and Costin do not agree about with each other about everything but
they show much more respect for each other.
I (as many others) sure would like to have a 3.3 while 4.0 gets stable.
3.3 could get stable sooner than 4.0 with many advantages over the current
3.2.
The energy that 3.3 is taking from 4.0 is highly overrated since Costin
the other main contributors of 3.3 are voluntary workers (not paid to do
it). It is not clear they would put this much effort on the 4.0 project at
this moment since their motivation is another one - and motivation is what
rules voluntary work.
It is also possible that they will move their effort elsewhere if the 3.3
code base leaves the Apache umbrela.
This way, the only waste of energy I see here are caused by Jon postings.
It is a pity that Jon is sabotaging 3.3 taking their attention with this
word war. And it is not doing 4.0 any good too.
After all these years in Open Source, Jon seems to be forgeting what
"voluntary work" means:
* I do not see how he is going to force Costin, Nacho, Gomez and others
to contribute all their time to 4.0 - the most he can do is to force
(some of?) them out of the Apache umbrella.
Have fun,
Paulo Gaspar
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Ruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 20:59
>
> Jon Stevens wrote:
> >
> > Thus, the *only* reason why 3.2 got released was
> > because Craig finally stood up and did a 3.2
> > release. Where was Mr. Costin during this time?
>
> Likely waiting for the release manager at the time (me) to do his job.
> Craig indicated at the time that he was able to get relief from his
> employer to spend work time on putting out the 3.2 release - something we
> all very much appreciate.
>
