I had better admit, right at the start, I am a little disgruntled. I did, personally (and quite some time ago) myself contribute money directly to Sash, but that was back in the time that I thought he would appreciate and allow others to help him. He told me that he didn't know how to use cvs nor ssh) but I offered to show him how to use them, because with the use of these tools, the project, which I liked, could easily be opened up (as many other projects have successfully been opened) so we could all contribute.
I offered this help both because I had the machines and web bandwidth so I could host them (and the haard disk space), but also, because I had personally been a release engineer. I am retired now, because of ill health, so I have even more time.
Why did I need to admit that at the start? Because I'm mad. Twice, I tried to take his sourve releases, and clean them up and put them into a cvs archive, so we could all contribute, but both times, he simply ignored my patches until he could bring out a new release, and that new release totally rejected all my patches. I ffered my patches either as the cvs archive, or as a set of patches, so He could take or rejct them as he wanted, but he simply ignored them all, didn't even comment on them. How can you contribute to a person who won't communicate and who rejects your attempt to fix things, by ignoring you? The only thing he didn't ignore was my check!
So, this constitutes my complaints against sashz, because while I would love to contribute to this project, sashz won't use any tools that allow community contributions, and doesn't integrate patches, and takes weeks even to answer simple emails. If we could only get evena smallish crew of folks who wanted to work on this together, I would coach all who needed it in cvs and ssh operations. We'd need to start with one dumpo o f source code. Sashz's code, in the past, has been littered with little local bugs. I would offer (once only, because I actually did this twice in the past, and sashz ignored both atttempts) to clean the sourcves up, so they could serve as a clean development base. I would onlyu ask that folks agree to try. No money wanted, either, folks. If you send it, the checks will decorate my circular file (I won't even bother to send them back!). Just be ready to contribute, and share your work!
Well, anyone want to do this? I would ONLY let sash in if he agrees to share his work!
If you want to do this, write me. In fact, maybe would should start a new topic here, it I can get at least 4-6 folks woh want to code.
