Now I'm curious...

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 03 September 2007 4:08:06 am Christian MICHON wrote:
> On 9/2/07, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> (...)
>
> > I'm poking Peter to put out a release.  I'll let you know if he does. 
> > (I'd happily send _him_ a cake, but he appears to be in Europe...)
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> and why not allowing us to peek at his 1194 commits instead ?

Because he got roundly chewed out here and was essentially told to go away by 
at least two high-profile commiters, and Erik never stepped up to defend him, 
so he took his ball and went home?

Now we're noticing that it was, in fact, a nice ball.

> does he have a public/private repository ? git ? mercurial ? svn ?

He has a private repository of some kind.  I spoke to him about it a year or 
so back but can't find it in my back email (might have been on irc).  
Recently he mentioned the number of commits in it, which is what brought it 
back to mind.

Mostly what I see is when I bring up a question he sends me a patch fixing 
whatever it was from his repository...

> This would look less like a fork this way, no ?

I think it's undeniably a fork, because he was checking everything in and was 
told to stop.  He didn't create the fork, he was merging everything he did 
into mainline.  That' show he got in trouble: Manuel and shjhill created the 
fork by telling him to stop merging last year.  They thought he was merging 
too much.

> Of course, one could argue that a project on hiatus is about to fork
> anyway sooner or later...

/me pleads the fifth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler

> My preference would be to see the people in charge back in the
> decision process. Maybe they're either too busy (understandable, they
> need to earn money also) or on holidays ?
>
> Patience then might be the key here... No flaming please :)

I'm not flaming anybody, I'm just pointing out some interesting statistics.

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.