Re: [hylafax-users] new community site

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Duffy wrote:

> So, again, from the perspective of a 3rd party with fairly little 
> knowledge of the HylaFAX project but a fair amount of time and 
> involvement in others: You might want to be careful to be sure that, 
> in the case of a traditionally community-governed project, you aren't 
> taking actions for which community guidance would be appropriate 
> without asking for and receiving that guidance first. 


I completely understand how easy it would be to misunderstand my intentions.

To understand why I didn't publish my intentions prior to actually doing 
them you need to understand that I did not want to get caught up in yet 
another political debate with Darren over the topic.  (Believe me, such 
a debate would have been unaviodable.  Darren is very possessive.)  To 
me it was a have-to-do thing, and if I had gotten involved in yet 
another banter with Darren over the topic it would have just slowed me 
down, frustrated me more, and given me yet more incentive to truly 
fork... just to save myself from those horrid threads.  As a contributor 
to this software I simply must be able to do it under a banner that is 
true to my heart.  The website advertisements for iFAX, the 
chest-thumping on-list and in Bugzilla, the overly-conservative approach 
to releases... I just could not be happy sitting underneath their shadow 
any longer.

I do not want a code fork any more than you or anyone else does.  In 
fact, consider that I've probably spent more time supporting and coding 
on the open-source HylaFAX software than anyone else save Sam Leffler.  
The last thing that I want to do is to abandon it or do something that 
would damage it.

On the topic of forking, everyone should clearly understand that every 
distribution and every customization of HylaFAX is of-itself a type of 
fork.  iFAX has their own "internal" fork.  I have my development code, 
a fork.  Lots of people have already forked the code for their own use.  
The idea behind the Sourceforge site was to have a place where 
*everyone* could feel free to return those contributions to the 
community... everyone, including those who refuse to march underneath 
iFAX's banner.

I hope this helps clarify my intentions.  If not, let me know.

Thanks,

Lee.


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