From: Sam Trenholme (abiword_bugs@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Mar 29 2002 - 14:16:00 EST
Hubert wrote:
> > Let me start off by saying that I do feel it is
> > somewhat unprofessional to stomp on Dom
> Lachowicz's
> > turf like this.
I replied:
> What is the problem ? I don't understand.
I guess it is time for me to introduce myself. My
name is Sam Trenholme and my personal domain is
http://www.samiam.org/.
On some of the jobs I worked at (back in the days when
computer skills were actually worth something on the
job market), that kind of behavior did have a way of
pissing people off.
In addition, I have been dealing with the likes of D*n
B*rnst*en for too long. He had a hissy when I
announced my DNS server project on Bugtraq, because he
felt that it was now a competition to his DNS server
project, even after I went out of my way to support
him on the Namedroppers mailing list when no one else
was supporting him.
Nice to see people here are more professional.
I am helping a little with some of the bugs which
annoy me while taking a bit of a break from my own DNS
server project (http://www.maradns.org). If you want
to see "bug fixing hell"; right now the major bug my
project has is "after running a stress test on the
server, it occassionally hangs". The tester can not
even consistently reproduce the bug, and it is one I
*have* to fix before 1.0.
I use AbiWord mainly in two contexts: Writing
documents which will probably eventally be printed and
writing/editing Word documents to send to collegues.
I write documents in two languages, English and
Spanish. This is why the bugs I report involve
problems with internationalization and Word document
exporting.
Just because I put a patch in the database does not
mean I think that particular patch should be added to
the AbiWord tree; I have received patches for my own
project, and understand why most patches are patches
which will not be added to AbiWord proper. I also
understand why requests for AbiCalc and tables cause a
collective groan from the developers.
Anyway, good to be here, it certaintly is a much
better way to spend my time than posting to and
reading Slashdot (which I have given up cold turkey).
I can't committ full time to this project, nor do I
have the network resources to keep current with the
CVS tree (dial-up hell, ugh), but I can send in some
small patches for bugs; and make test cases which make
it trivial for the developers to reproduce and test
their fixes against the bugs in question.
- Sam
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