[Opensim-dev] Stepping down from OpenSim core

Justin Clark-Casey jjustincc at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 24 17:13:34 UTC 2009


Sorry to hear this Stefan - the project certainly can take up a lot of time and 
I think that it's very hard to balance this (probably true for any reasonably 
sized open-source project).

All the best for the future.

Stefan Andersson wrote:
> Folks,
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> just letting you know I'm stepping down from OpenSim core.
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> Since Tribal Media keeled over, my life situation simply does not allow 
> me neither to participate in the dev community regularly nor contribute 
> code. I have committed exactly three characters since we moved to git.
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> What I have come to respect the most in OpenSim is the disrespectful 
> attitude against 'talk'.
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> OpenSim has always been about participating thru effort; testing, 
> promoting, writing, coding, building. So while discussion has always 
> been welcome, any kind of demands have always been met with "do it 
> yourself, or pay someone to do it". A harsh sentiment, but ultimately 
> the only viable attitude in a project like this.
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> Sean Dague disliked the term 'founding four', feeling that just because 
> you were among the first didn't automatically give you authority. Back 
> then, I didn't agree; for some time now, I have.
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> So rather than lingering, I'm leaving.
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> I wish to thank all core devs, past and present; thank you all 
> gridnauts, testers, hosts, customers and partners - It's been an 
> immensely satisfying ride. Hope to see you all on the 3D Web.
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> Best regards,
> 
> Stefan Andersson aka lbsa71
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> http://lbsa71.net/
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