[Fwd: Fw: Dropping lunar development activity]

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Quote from Couannette <couannette at free.fr>:

> Hello all Lunar users and devs
>

> 10. Thy Should Love Your Lunar Fellows

Show me the one from Lunar Devs ?

Stefan Ilivanov
>
> Couannette
>
>
> Auke Kok wrote:
> >
> >
> > Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 12:11:50 -0400
> > From: elaine <elaine at fwsystems.com>
> > To: <lunar at lunar-linux.org>
> > Subject: Dropping lunar development activity
> >
> >
> > I regret to say that the time has come that I need to announce leaving
> > lunar development.
> >
> > While as a practical matter, I haven't had time to develop any significant
> > code or keep up with package management, that is not the reason I'm
> > electing
> > to drop the project; there are things I'd like to do with Lunar and I
> > will have the time.
> >
> > My reasons are twofold
> >
> > 1. I'm displeased with the general code quality and developer priorities.
> > Specifically I was bit *yet again* this morning by the decision to add
> > x11 into the dependency system 'through the back door' of
> > 'xserver-profile'.
> > This substantially breaks rebuild for my old boxes and I'm not willing to
> > continue to work with developers who:  a. don't take policy/design
> > commitments
> > seriously and b. don't consider backward-compatibilty.
> >
> > 2. I'm sick and tired of politics being embedded in the moonbase ala:
> >
> > ---paste---
> > module XOrg  dependency - purpose: Answer YES to use the open source
> > XOrg xserver
> > ...
> > 1. XOrg which is the default Lunar xserver
> > and will be frequently updated. 2. XFree86 which is an older version
> > and due to license issues will not be updated ever.
> > ---/paste---
> >
> > <rant>
> > This is bullshit stmtmnt 1 implise that XOrg is open source while others
> > aren't; stmtment 2 throws somone's politically motivated module decisions
> > in my face.
> >
> > As it happens I'm as pleased as anyone to see the chance that the X
> > Consortium will again be the repository for a main branch of X11. I was
> > building X from source (gnu/fsf tapes) a decade ago and xfree86's code
> > quality has never impressed me.
> >
> > The Xfree project was nominally more 'free' which was often the reason
> > given for xfree86 project's existence.
> >
> > However xfree's new license is not non-free and it is arguably not even
> > gpl-incompatible for binary distribution, let alone source distribution.
> > </rant>
> >
> >
> > why I'm leaving:
> >
> > The reason that's been given to excuse dropping our long-standing
> > promise that X11 will not be built into dependencies:
> >
> > 'we don't like fielding questions from newbies'
> >
> > I'm sorry my response is 'build a system that even a fool can use and
> > only a fool will want to'.
> >
> > So in exchange for something which could have been added to the FAQ
> > the project is losing a primary (albeit currently inactive) developer.
> >
> >
> > why it's important to stick to commitments:
> >
> > I wrote and monitor the code that checks on how often lusers update
> > moonbase. The median user updates less than every 6 months.
> >
> > The admonition 'run lunar update (daily, weekly, monthly)' just
> > doesn't cut it. That is not the average user's behavior.
> >
> > Completely cutting off support for running; stable systems by
> > making radical changes in the dependency db imo pretty well amounts
> > to ignoring the actual behavior of the majority of users.
> >
> >
> > Where I'd like to see lunar going:
> >
> > Those of you who've been around to hear my rants on IRC over the
> > years will probably be bored by this.
> >
> > Lunar as a project (imnvho) has been far too willing to release
> > badly broken updates to moonbase (and less often core).
> >
> > I believe bugs introduced that way are far harder to fix; ymmv.
> > I would like to see implications of changes actually be thought
> > through before implementation.
> >
> > (AND I drew a line in the sand over this months ago asking that
> > *critical* modules (e.g. gcc; glibc; gnome; db; db4; ... ....) be
> > given sensible testing)
> >
> > Regarding xserver-profile as a dependiency.
> >
> > I could come up with at least 2 alternate approaches to the xserver-profile
> > kluge. alternate-depends as the clean way or a hack to allow lusers who
> > don't want x11 in deps to opt-out.
> >
> > -profile 'modules' are a pretty ugly hack to begin with; they aren't
> > even reasonably integrated into the dependency system and so what we
> > got with this one was a combination of two ugly hacks for the price
> > of one.
> >
> > I'd like to see Lunar not do that again but as I said at the start it's
> > not gonna be my decision or task.
> >
> > I wish the project the best of luck. Of the source-based solutions it's
> > the best (imo).
> >
> >
> > elaine
> >
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