On Feb 8, 2007, at 7:55 PM, Kevin Reynen wrote:
This makes my head hurt!
Since taking over as maintainer, I... ... Then this afternoon...
I discover drupal-id updated the TinyMCE module last night.
This is the nature of open source. Nobody owes anybody anything, we're all just out to scratch our own itches. The process works when people realize that you can help yourself in a way that helps others. In turn, you get more help and insight from others, and you'll find that they are helping themselves in a way that helps you. Spending your time and energy on a project should earn you a say, and most folks will acknowledge that. But it doesn't give you any special entitlements. If you want something done in *exactly* the way you would do it, you have to take some ownership.
I've been doing my best to help users with issue, get a handle on what's going on, and figure out how to move forward. I know several developers and many users jumped the tinymce ship and moved to moxie, but there are links to the tinymce project in hundreds of Drupal howtos.
Hopefully, by now, you realize from your own experience that this wasn't about "jumping ship". This was about respecting the project maintainer's rights to make his own decisions, while finding ways to address our own needs.
Anyone have suggestions on how to deal with this?
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