[Freeciv-Dev] Re: hobby as process?

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 03:43:03PM -0800, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> From: Raimar Falke [mailto:i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:39:42AM -0800, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> > Ben also just did the large amount of work you are still avoiding and
> > created FreecivAC.
> Which large amount of work is that?  Pythonizing Freeciv and creating a
> "kitchen sink" submissions infrastructure?  I seriously doubt Ben has
> done all of that!

No, I used S-Lang instead. There was no need to use Python.

> And I notice that FreecivAC's last stable release
> version was May 2000, which says to me I should not take any cues about
> project management from Ben's work.

After then I decided that maintaining a whole stable distribution was
overkill, and simply released patches against Freeciv instead, as Raimar
has already pointed out.

I have no intention of contributing further to this discussion, which
has only served so far to convince me that freeciv-dev needs to be
moderated.

        Ben
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