From: Christophe B. <mai...@fr...> - 2002-09-24 16:59:00
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*ouch* On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 12:18, MIGUEL ANGEL BLANCH LARDIN wrote: > Hi all, > > Arianne is dead. > > This project is really exhausted and IMO it can't continue anymore on the > actualy structure. There are 27 developers on Sourceforge and only steve has > been working lately with PHP of developers site and Skyflash with changing the > sites content. > > So 24 of those 27 persons are doing NOTHING. > > And well, things are even worse if you take a look to the developers site. > There are several people joined... around 20, I have dedicated several hours of > my personal time to create tasks and fill them with good descriptions so that > people can take them and just look what is the reply... Only steve has used it. > None except again Steve and Skyflash has filled a single task. > None of the GFX people has joined the site. > > Well, and about mailing lists... more of the same... I have do a CALL for > people to know what everyone is doing here... and the reply has been nothing: > None has had time to write a few lines explaining what they are doing. > > Project code needs a total clearing... I am writting test cases for Arianne and > it has found to be really instable on the Connection and Thread related things, > so the only way to continue is to clear it or recode it. > > If someone offers to take the leadership of Arianne I will transfer him all the > keycodes and all the rights over the code that I have written, so that he can > continue Arianne as s/he thinks it is better, even changing the license. > > If none offers to take it, I will meditate about either shutting down it, or > clearing ALL and start again from the begin of the begin in a new way no > developers, no website, no teams, no tasks, no contributions, no ideas. > > One of the biggest errors of Arianne has been to be too open, we have accepted > on the team people that is not really to take the task, we have accepted tons > of ideas that are really impossible to be done, I have failed to motivate and > coordinate this group of people into working on it. > Also I have written a huge ammount of documetation, several of you will say > that docs are a shit ( like Uli did ) but again, none has written a better one, > what Uli wrote was only a email long documentation in a very technical language > that hardly can help a newbie to understand it. > I have created, used and recommended sourceforge trackers but little people has > really used it. > I have tried to do an schedule of the project but people has not contributed a > single line to inform me of what they are doing. > You don't document anything... nor decisions, nor code. > > Personally, I still have the same motivation to create a MMOG as before > starting to work on Arianne, so I will for sure retry it, either on Arianne or > by my own with the experience that I have get on Ariane. > > Anyway, I really want to thank you all the 3 years of Arianne, I have meet real > good friends, I have had great times and I have felt the proud of being an open > source developer, I also have felt the sadness of getting only bad words of > what you do, from inside and outside, I have also understand that people always > talk more than they can do. Anyway, Thanks to all. > > Regards, > Miguel > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Arianne-general mailing list > Ari...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/arianne-general > |