On 2015-05-10 15:23, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
In the absence of any communication and actual information, people
always imagine all kinds of things, and this is especially true of
anyone seen as a leader. All along Mark has been a presumably
extraordinarily capable technician heading up a talented team who are
trying to do their best to develop the product we love, and solving
problems whose complications we are unaware of -- but without some
sense of him as a person and a glimpse of what's going on behind the
curtain in Edinburgh it has been easy to think that he and they are
ignoring us, or twiddling their thumbs, or something. His presence on
this list is obviously welcome and much needed, even if it's only
intermittent.
I think that is perhaps the issue - lack of knowledge causes
speculation, usually without appropriate application of 'Occam's Razor'
(or should that be 'Hanlon's Razor'...).
To be fair if you want to see what my team and I are doing in an
uncensored form then you need only look here:
https://github.com/runrev/livecode/pulse
This shows (at the very least) all the patches we are applying as we
develop. (I tried to find a public way to view the 'runrev' organisation
news feed - but couldn't - if anyone who knows their way around
github.com more than I can share how to see that publically then that
would be great).
My modesty won't allow me to comment as to how much of an
'extraordinarily capable technician' I might be. However, put in
context, I have been working on the LiveCode engine as we inherited it
from MetaCard since 2004. This now accounts for getting on for a third
of my life, so I have certainly gained a rather large amount of
knowledge about it - so I'd hope that I was quite capable, in that
specific regard at least.
--
Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
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