Re: Bidi-less Applications Patching Policy

[Samy Al Bahra <samy at kerneled dot org>]

On Jun 1, 2004, at 08:24 PM, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:

> For the record, this is because I probably need support for devices 
> which do
> not support shared libraries. This point is subject to discussion with 
> probable sponsers. Definitely not because I like MIT/BSD licenses.

Ok?

> Well, I think I am not paid enough at Arabeyes:)

[...]

> One of the main reasons I come here is to support open source and to 
> make much
> use of available resources, not to duplicate work.

Yet you say things like: "I am not paid enough ....".

> Examples:
> - Arabization/translation issues, we are putting our rules regardless 
> ofthe
> zillion Arabic/language departments in the Arab world. Assuming that 
> nobody is
> teaching computer in Arabic before.



> - Let's redo FriBiDi.

I didn't agree with this, and I do not agree with this at all 
(technically and politically). As a contributor and developer to this 
project, it's my right to choose what I would like and not like to give 
a helping hand to, and I didn't decide to help with miniBiDi (I find it 
to be a redundant project).

In the future, we might have educational benefits from this project 
however, so it shouldn't be killed, but also should not be used 
actively.

> Proof of concept. Tell me what do I gain from Arabeyes so I host my 
> work there. And by the way, some times people fork just because they 
> want to be agreeable to big brother, who doesn't approve of their 
> license.

Hrm? Can you be specific?

What do you mean, "What do I gain from Arabeyes"? Why are you here? Why 
do you act like you care for open-source when you want to gain 
something other than the programming experience? I do not mean to pet 
my ego, but I've been in your situation before and wisely decided not 
to leave.

It involved some rude and selfish behavior from a certain core member, 
I was seriously pissed off and was a hair away from leaving this 
project. You know what I realized? Arabeyes cannot afford it. The 
reason Arabeyes has been doing reasonably well is that because there 
are no such things as "forks", everything is centralized, and a skilled 
open-source developer interested in Arabization issues has one source 
to help and confer to. This meta-project is a, true, melting pot of 
Arabization efforts. Don't change this (yes, you are like this). You 
want to "fork" your own maintained project? Where is the logic in that? 
Please, think about what you're doing. You will find many developers 
will stand by you in some things, and that -core@ is more reasonable 
than you think (really, they _are_ human). :)

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