<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Aleric,</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The choices are :</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">SLDEV : Benevolent Dictatorship –
Necessary for a company with bureaucracy and internal controls as
real life (profit) does meet up with hobbyist here.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Phoenix-Dev : Monarchy – Queen and
her princes and princesses in total control and a not invented here
attitude. Example; use different package software without published
procedures since we don't want our product re-distributed anyway .
And lets not forget the warning banner at start up.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Imprudence : Oligarchy with enough
democracy that entry level folks (such as myself) can learn and
contribute.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">I'll take the later. </p></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Aleric Inglewood <aleric.inglewood@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ImpDev@lists.imprudenceviewer.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, January 20, 2011 11:02:20 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [impdev] Why I can no longer contribute to Imprudence.<br></font><br>
It seemed to good at first: many of the developers that I already<br>knew and respected in an IRC channel of the second-most popular<br>TPV. No longer "working" for Linden Lab... and (hopefully) a more<br>relaxed sphere (aka: "commit at will").<br><br>I started off with lots of enthusiasm and added many improvements<br>to the build system (for linux, which is my platform), then ported over<br>every patch that I did in the past for SnowGlobe (quite a lot), and<br>especially had to put a lot of time into bringing Imprudence up to speed<br>with regard to using plugins and webkit, so that it would get at the<br>same level as SnowGlobe 1.5.<br><br>All of that is just "getting ready", synchronizing imprudence with<br>Snowglobe. A lot of duplicated work that I already had done in the<br>past, and certainly didn't contribute anything to "viewers" in general,<br>only to Imprudence, that was pretty lagged behind in these respects.<br><br>In December of last
year, I was finally working on something new:<br>I refactored the plugsin (split the base classes in two: a basic version<br>and the more specialized "media" types), and implemented a plugin<br>for the filepicker, so that now it is possible to upload files and save<br>snapshots without freezing the whole viewer and timing out your<br>network connection!<br><br>After having worked for Imprudence full time like that (I do this as<br>a volunteer, but it's a day time job: I work 8+ hours per day, 7 days<br>per week on SL viewers; without getting paid thus), I sudden got<br>a very very cold shower...<br><br>As it turned out, a fact that had been kept hidden from me from<br>some reason, there exists an "inner circle" in Imprudence.<br>They call it "the team". If you don't know if you are on this "team"<br>then you are not. It's a special team of select people who make<br>all the decisions, and it's invite only. If you're not in this "team"<br>you have no
say.<br><br>Obviously that is not acceptable for me. I'm a professional coder<br>and I put a LOT of time into this project; I fill my days with. It's<br>completely unthinkable that I'd be considered as some "third rank"<br>contributor who should shut up when the big people talk...<br>However, exactly that is how Jacek sees it.<br><br>After she called for an urgent meeting of "team members" to make<br>important decisions, in December, I confronted her with the question:<br>Why on Thursday? I can't on Thursdays, that's a known fact.<br>I had to DRAG it out - but after a while, me being almost annoyingly<br>persistent, I got her to admit that "I wasn't on the team" and I was<br>informed about it's existence - and finally it became clear that<br>no matter my experience and the time I put into Imprudence, I actually<br>had no more say in Imprudence than the say I have in the Linden Lab<br>server protocol decisions.<br><br>Now that alone wouldn't have been
enough for my decision<br>that I had to drop Imprudence (I'd say 'leave', but I apparently<br>was never a part of it in the first place). What was, was that<br>what is supposed to be our leader spoke for the whole team<br>with the following words:<br><br>"Dec 03 02:54:06 <jjacek> At the moment, there are two main obstacles<br>that keep you from being a team member. The first is that it is difficult<br>and stressful to work with, talk with, and generally deal with you.<br>I know that you know that Armin is not fond of you, but he's not the<br>only one. I don't think there are any team members who would be<br>pleased to have you on the team."<br><br>For your information, this "team", at that momentm existed of the<br>following people:<br><br>"Dec 03 02:39:09 <jjacek> The team at the moment is me, McCabe,<br>Armin, Elektra, Codie, Revolution, and Boroondas."<br><br>I'm currently working very closely together with Boroondas<br>(on snowstorm, and
even another project) with no problems<br>whatsoever. I never saw or talked with Revolution, I think<br>I saw Codie a few times during meetings in-world, and my<br>cooperation with Elektra was fine. We never had any argument<br>or problem. McCabe and me got along. Didn't have any personal<br>problems, but also not a relationship that resembles friendship.<br>Just purely efficient and professional. So, that leaves Armin<br>who indeed has frustrated me so much while I tried to cooperate<br>with him that I felt the urge to shout and shake him (and apparently<br>he complained first to jacek, who then told me, after which<br>Armin and me talked it out. It is (and was) clear to me that<br>Armin and me aren't the best of team (ake, we can't work<br>together) but I have nothing against him as a person, and<br>didn't feel he disliked me (anymore) after we talked out our<br>misunderstandings.<br><br>So there it is: There are no team members that would be
pleased<br>to have me on the team, because it's difficult and stressful to<br>work with me... according to jjacek.<br><br>I haven't really talked about this... Shortly after Jacek got a<br>burnout, and McCabe too I understood - so she decided to<br>put Imprudence on a hold. I took my time to weigh my options<br>and came to the conclusion that it would be very unthankful<br>way to spend all my free time working for a project with a<br>"leader" that deals with her team in this way. If she wants<br>to make all the decisions for an Open Source(!) project, then<br>that will have to happen without my support.<br><br>Funny thing is, neither McCabe nor Jjacek contacted me in<br>the past 7 weeks. It must have been clear by now that I<br>decided to silently leave, and apparently they are happy<br>about that. Never mind that I was first abused and sucked<br>dry and then insulted and left in the cold. They are happy<br>that I left and never felt the urge to talk
about this with me.<br>Great social skills.<br><br>The only sign that things now are permanent is the silent<br>change back to meeting on just Thursdays. That triggered<br>this post.<br><br>I wish everyone good luck, if they decide to continue put<br>time into kakoa/Imprudence. But realize this: you will never<br>have any real say here, even if jacek is now going to tell<br>you that I REALLY am an asshole that nobody can work<br>together with and that this very mail is the proof of that.<br>And then smiles at you and puts an arm around you tells<br>you that of course you are welcome in the team and things<br>will change... Ask yourself what will happen in the future<br>when an important decision has to be made and your<br>opinion is different from jaceks...<br>Add to that that imprudence only has a small fraction of<br>all users (LL and Phoenix have about half each; the<br>rest is neglectable), then does it really make sense to put<br>time into
this.<br><br>I understood that not only they have a burn out, but<br>things are just in general not going so well anyway with<br>this project. Scaring off your most productive and<br>talented coders won't help much in that regard.<br>I recognize doomed projects usually pretty soon (I was<br>late with this one). Imprudence/kokua has no interesting<br>future.<br><br>I'm sorry I wasted several months of my life doing things<br>that I already had done before, and that now turn out<br>to be have been a complete waste :(<br><br>Regards,<br>Aleric<br>_______________________________________________<br>ImpDev mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:ImpDev@lists.imprudenceviewer.org" href="mailto:ImpDev@lists.imprudenceviewer.org">ImpDev@lists.imprudenceviewer.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank"
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