On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 10:13:13AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote: > Hey all, > > While I had hoped that the quiet of the last week or so had meant that > things would perhaps return to how they had been before, Simon's large > patch series and then comments on the TPM+bloblist patch have shown > otherwise. > > At this point, I do not know how best to handle Simon's behavior, > without soliciting feedback in public first. At best he's created a > soft-fork of the project with his "sjg/master" branch. I've asked him > repeatedly to explain how he thinks this is all going to work out, in > public. I've had private conversations with him, but I want him to > explain in public. Or, he can post the messages if he likes. > > And I am in the process of getting outside help that would in turn be > able to help the project move beyond the BDFL model we've always used. > Because at the end of the day, if most of the active developers would > prefer the direction Simon wants to take everything in, that's something > I can accept. But what's going on now is towards the worst end of > possible outcomes I think for the project itself. And by that I mean, > one prominent contributor steam-rolling over others and doing as the > please and implicitly acting as an authoritative voice for the project.
It's been not quite two weeks. On the positive side, Simon and I are continuing to talk in private and things are moving in what I hope (and I believe Simon hopes) to be a good direction for both individuals and the project as a whole. And to answer some of the "wait, what is this about?" in order to not misconstrue things I would point anyone at the list archives of the last few months for how things have finally reached this point, but it's been a much longer running problem. -- Tom
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