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From: pjvm742@disroot.org
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:20:35 +0000
Message-Id: YXrp891IDIOQza2J@zee
To: "Sean Conner" <sean@conman.org>
In-Reply-To: 20211020233923.GO26182@brevard.conman.org
Cc: "Gemini ML" <gemini@lists.orbitalfox.eu>
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Hello Sean,
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 07:39:23PM -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
Back on April 17th of this year, I wrote the following to solderpunk:
> [...] As far as I'm concerned, I don't have it in me to work further
> on Gemini - there are too many people with too many divergent
> opinions on how it should all work. [...]
This is sad to hear. I suspect I'm one of the people who was making it
difficult for you... I regret being so fierce about the Gitlab thing,
and I also would like to apologise for my contribution to the awful
length of the Gitlab discussion about status code 11. I can easily see
how such, um, enthusiasm coming from many people can quickly become
too much.
Anyway, I too would like to thank you for the finalisation work that you
did for as long as you did it, and also for your significant earlier
contributions to the protocol and the gemtext format.
Not ONE person here who had showed interest in finalizing the spec
bothered to reach out and say, "What's up with the spec?" or "Are you still
working on the spec?" or even "Hey! Haven't heard from you for some time."
Nothing.
I kind of assumed it was similar with you as with Solderpunk, a break of
undefined length rather than a permanent one. Finalising the spec was
never an urgent thing, so I just waited. Also, iirc you made many
provisionary decisions in one go, which made it seem plausible (to me at
least) that the final decisions would also come in a batch.
I like that it now seems the spec is moving towards finalisation. I
will probably disagree with quite a few of Solderpunk's decisions, but
ultimately it's about minor details, and (if there's anything the Gitlab
issue tracker has demonstrated) for many of them there is something to
be said for both sides; for the controversial ones, I expect
Solderpunk's rationale will be enough for most people to accept it.
--
pjvm