Re: A Critique: Getting Started with GNUstep on Windows

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> Lack of manpower (and perhaps poisitive incentive) leadss to slow progress, but 
> that’s very different from complacency.
> Nobody needs disrupting/shocking out of complacency, what’s needed is 
> contributions to actually fix bugs and implement missing features.

You speak out of my heart.

Also, I watched the video and none of the mentioned "problems" was 
really new to me and several of them already ave a bug open

Actually the video itself shows how much has already been accomplished
If done with current SVN stuff, I suppose (and hope) that some of the 
mentioned problems have been solved. Some of them directly by myself and 
some by you.
> I think that’s what Riccardo was saying, and while I can see how you might 
> think his response was insulting to your effort, please consider that;
> a. he’s frustrated by the fact that, over the years, he’s repeatedly been told 
> that his work is not good enough, by people who aren’t actually contributing 
> code improvements themselves
> b. your response to a (possibly misinterpreted/imagined) insult was to be 
> extremely, disproportionately insulting (at least we are left in no doubt about 
> whether you intended to be insulting or not)

I did not want to insult, I just wanted to be a little harsh about the 
methods and contents, feeling a little offended by the video. I ask 
forgiveness and hope that made my position clearer.. While with Thom 
there were no doubts about his intentions in his latter mail.

Riccardo