Alfons Hoogervorst (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} alfons) wrote,@ 2005-02-13 15:46:00 |
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Public Scrutiny
Most people think that `free programs`, `free spirit of collaboration` are characteristics of Open Source. Those are just the advantages; the only thing that Open Source provides is something more amoral: Public availability of source, open for scrutiny.
One of the nice things about having blogged about Sylpheed Claws for 4+ years, is that it provides a good documentation of personal involvement. People will tend to say that it is coloured by personal opinions, but it is, in hindsight, more reliable than the `email du jour` where people tend to switch positions based on the length of the quote they prefer to use. For blog entries you can just go back to a date and see how you felt about something.
So with the two observations above I looked back at my old Claws case blog entry, and thought that I failed to present my case by trying to document the personal side.
With help of use of publicly available archives, here the facts that I failed to present (and there's really a lot more in the Devel Archive):
Most people think that `free programs`, `free spirit of collaboration` are characteristics of Open Source. Those are just the advantages; the only thing that Open Source provides is something more amoral: Public availability of source, open for scrutiny.
One of the nice things about having blogged about Sylpheed Claws for 4+ years, is that it provides a good documentation of personal involvement. People will tend to say that it is coloured by personal opinions, but it is, in hindsight, more reliable than the `email du jour` where people tend to switch positions based on the length of the quote they prefer to use. For blog entries you can just go back to a date and see how you felt about something.
So with the two observations above I looked back at my old Claws case blog entry, and thought that I failed to present my case by trying to document the personal side.
With help of use of publicly available archives, here the facts that I failed to present (and there's really a lot more in the Devel Archive):
| Uncredited IMAP-SSH patch (submitted by Martin Pool, of Samba) | Bug #87 |
| Discussion of poor IMAP performance (patches submitted by Marshall Rose) | User ML #2770520 |
| Privacy API reverts |
Commits ML #6669557; This led to this entry in my blog. Unfortunately I can not publish related devel ML discussion. |
| Uncredit bugfix | Commits ML #6118320; After protests in the devel ML, it was changed here. |
| Uncredited bugfix in ChangeLog |
Commits ML #8971878; Follow up in Sylpheed Claws ML isn't pretty either. |
