Thoughts on legacy...

[Warren Togami]

Chris Spencer wrote:
>>When will people understand that a community project needs more than a
>>"one man gang" who just tries to push it forward? Warren Togami's
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> problem
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>>is, he can make a project look as if it is alive and happy when in fact
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> it
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>>is in serious lack of contributors. Well, at fedora.us, for instance,
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> it
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>>is not a problem if some 50+ packages for educational programming
>>languages [and other stuff with a very special target group] seem to

It is not clear to me who wrote this, but if somebody feels that I made 
it seem like this project was doing well, then they totally have not 
been paying attention.  I have been expressing my displeasure quite 
vocally, to the point of threatening to kill the project a week ago to 
avoid giving false hope.

Instead I stuck around and continued to advise the folks in the IRC 
channel despite my limited time and me near a point of burn-out due to 
lack of sleep.  They made some progress, but what is necessary now is 
people asserting themselves and taking the necessary steps to complete 
publication of packages, and fixing the website & documentation so there 
is something of substance here.

Otherwise, talk is cheap.  I acted while I have no interest in actually 
using this project.

>>in the queue forever. But with Fedora Legacy, the project should have
>>tried to be ready 1-2 months ago already and know exactly how to get an

"should have" is unhelpful.  I had hoped that the so called "leaders" 
who had stepped forward many months ago at certain companies and 
Universities that supposedly depend on this software and its continuance 
would have taken the necessary initiative and prepare things.

But sadly early in December this project had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, and it 
appeared that nothing would be done.  I then wrote the first draft of 
the launch plan and sent it to those who expressed wanting to be 
leaders.  I had ZERO responses from these people.  The rest you have 
seen on this list.

Warren