Fwd: Subject: Re: New Maintainer for MC Project?? Part 3 of 3

[Fudoki Wilkinson]

Part 3 of 3

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From: Fudoki Wilkinson <fudoki.wilkinson at gmail.com>
Date: Jun 4, 2005 3:22 PM
Subject: Subject: Re: New Maintainer for MC Project??
To: MC Devel List <mc-devel at gnome.org>

Part 3 of 3

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We are interested in helping the MC Team for two reasons: 1) We are all MC 
users and "fans", have been for years. On my SUSE 9.2 workstation MC loads 
second, Krusader loads fifth. We want to see MC come out with a new version, 
and then another, and so on..., 2) We are in the File Management business. 
File Management is what we are about. Even though Krusader and MC are very 
different products, for very different usages in many cases, for different 
working environments; they are both "Twin-Panel File Managers". Did I 
mention that this is what we do? We believe that there is considerable 
synergy between the two products now, and given the right environment and 
some time, that there could be a great deal of synergy between the two 
products. We cannot help but believe that if we get an additional 
development team of file management experts working with us, even in 
"different parts of the house", that this will lead to breakthroughs in file 
management technology AND make both products better and more desirable - 
even if all the two different teams do is talk and compare "war stories'. 
How many other file management developers do you guys know who are not on 
your team? We think having the two premier file management application 
development teams under the same roof creates a unique and powerful 
technology situation; and given the current strife and problems your team 
has been having (the rumors of the product dying, etc.) and our ability to 
make what we believe is a very attractive offer, on several levels, to help 
out and take over as Maintainer for MC from Pavel; we would be out of our 
heads not to at least ask. To at least see if anyone wanted to have a 
conversation about the possibility. After discussing the matter with Pavel 
over the past two weeks, we are more sure than ever that such an arrangement 
can have great potential, and great payoffs, for both teams. Pavel urged me 
to make contact with you developers and if you were willing, move forward. 
Given the situation, what would do? I wrote a note asking if anyone wanted 
to discuss making a change. It was the only choice.

One of your developers seemed to be upset because what we are proposing is 
not gradual enough. The fact is, if the MC Developers want to accept our 
offer, then Pavel will transfer the Maintainership to me and we will move 
forward, and the MC Project will get a fresh start and be able to leave all 
the trouble of the past three years in the past, and we believe, move 
forward to a rewarding and gratifying future where all of us can break new 
technology ground and do what we like to do most - design and write killer 
software that users all over the world love! Any member of the MC 
Development Team that is not into that idea will not be happy around the 
Krew, and may want to think about some other hobby than writing free 
software..... But there is really no gradual, incremental way to do this 
kind of thing. This is a chance that rarely comes up, we could never live 
with ourselves if we never even tried to see if it could work...

>What the project needs is a maintainer (or maintainers) that not
>necessarily does a lot of development himself, but one that oversees the
>project development, can formulate sensible milestone targets and
>communicate with the developers about these targets and if they are
>being met, and do an occasional release.

I hope I have covered these concerns.

>I'm not sure this is what you are suggesting.

Be sure. This is exactly what we are suggesting! If you would like to 
discuss this, or any other File Management related issues, Skype me (Skype 
ID = fudoki) and we'll chat. I'm a fellow programmer, and a fellow lover of 
good software that people don't have to buy from the evil empire and 
sacrifice their firstborn to obtain and use!

We like being the best at what we do. Not so long ago the MC Team was the 
best at what they do. It can be that way again. Where will you find a 
Maintainer that understands you better than us?

You guys deserve, IOHO, a chance to shine again. We offer you that chance 
under the best conditions we can come up with. It the same as we have, which 
is the very best we can do - and believe me, it ain't bad!

Thanks for your note and please don't hesitate to write or Skype if you have 
any more questions, concerns, etc. If you and some of the other Developers 
want to arrange a conference call with me and one or more of our Developers 
to get a feel for our programming standards and what we expect in terms of 
professional competence; I will be happy to facilitate this. That's what I 
am here for - to be a facilitator and liaison. Just let me know.

With warm regards,

Terry

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