Hi, On 2022-01-23 06:17, mick crane wrote: >> >> All together it is sad that conflicts are not solved for one or another >> reason. > > This is probably an accurate observation. > I was a little concerned about the direction of travel when that > software got removed from the repository because of variable names. > > mick You are right with this one. Whatever reason, that's a huge problem with most opensource project. That is having social problem between people put halt to good software project. When you run a business, you have some power to push people into working together but when it's a game of "take what I do or I'll go away" you are either in the position of accepting contribution of someone (and accepting his personality) or you have to push away some much needed contribution (because you believe there would be a conflict that would cause problem to your project, either active conflict or one that could arise). People take it a bit like a religious belief and it's quite hard to make them accept choice they don't like, even if it's a majority choice. You see this with the desktop war (KDE vs Gnome), the service manager (SystemD vs Init), packaging system (RPM vs DPK vs TGZ vs ...). If all this split energy was put into one project we'd had the best OS distribution ever, with no security problem, the most up to date package and much more. Because by splitting every time something goes bad, there's redundant job done on many different project that could be done only once. -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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