PJ vM pjvm742 at disroot.org
Thu Oct 28 19:20:35 BST 2021
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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 itdifficult for you... I regret being so fierce about the Gitlab thing,and I also would like to apologise for my contribution to the awfullength of the Gitlab discussion about status code 11. I can easily seehow such, um, enthusiasm coming from many people can quickly becometoo much.
Anyway, I too would like to thank you for the finalisation work that youdid for as long as you did it, and also for your significant earliercontributions 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 ofundefined length rather than a permanent one. Finalising the spec wasnever an urgent thing, so I just waited. Also, iirc you made manyprovisionary decisions in one go, which made it seem plausible (to me atleast) that the final decisions would also come in a batch.
I like that it now seems the spec is moving towards finalisation. Iwill probably disagree with quite a few of Solderpunk's decisions, butultimately it's about minor details, and (if there's anything the Gitlabissue tracker has demonstrated) for many of them there is something tobe said for both sides; for the controversial ones, I expectSolderpunk's rationale will be enough for most people to accept it.
-- pjvm