Re: [Re-alpine-devel] Eduardo Chappa & OpenHatch -- easy issue for you to fix in Alpine

[Andreas S. <sch...@fa...>]

Hi there,

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, at 11:16, Tim K. (Gmane) wrote:
> It is sad we have to read such exchanges on a public mailing list.

In general, maybe yes, in this particular less so. Or in Eduardo's 
words "There are other issues involved" which I think should indeed be 
discussed on this list.

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, at 06:48, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>> (Eduardo Chappa doesn't like it when his patches are shared in 
>> software released under an open source/free license.)
> 
> This is far from the truth, and is just your interpretation. There 
> are other issues involved in this decision.

It is certainly not _only_ Asheesh's interpretation. I know that 
others including myself pretty much share this view. 

Eduardo, maybe you'd like to explain from your point of view which 
other issues are involved, and what keeps you from sharing your 
patches with distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu!?

In recent months I tend to see you as one if not the one most actively 
writing patches for Alpine. At the same time you are impeding the 
wider distribution of Alpine and its successor Re-Alpine (like for 
instance with your denial of including your Maildir patch[*] and 
quitting your participation as a Re-Alpine developer).

I find this rather puzzling at times where further development of 
(Re-)Alpine is at stake.

> Moreover, this type of comments does not help me change my mind.

I also know that there are people who are (still) willing to help you 
help the (Re-)Alpine community. Please let us know which comments 
could help to change your mind.

Thank you for your consideration,

-- 
-- Andreas

[*] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405762
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alpine/+bug/496575