2016-01-03, 10:53
And for all the years of trying to support my favorite project as testified by the hundreds of wiki edits, thousands of forums posts and thousands of hours also providing support to all users in forums and especially IRC over the years and to my hundreds of Kodi source contributions that for the most part, felt mostly unappreciated by some of the team members, I also hand in my volunteer badge and walk out in protest in support of fritsch and spiff and all the others who devs and users whom have left the project due to similar reasons.
I realize in terms of value added and quality of contributions Im a drop of water in the sea of contributions these people added but I feel much like they did, because do not fool yourselfs, the internal team politics and this discord among team members is felt outside the team by everyone else who care to open eyes, and especially to those who contribute to kodi source code and are made to feel unwelcome (like I have) and pushed out and to some of these people who dared to try to make some contributions only to see them abandoned to the cob webs of time.
One thing some people in the Team do exceedingly well, is to discourage others from helping and contributing, because they are invalidated with the narrow vision which is goes against the very core which makes Kodi great.
You know who you are, and maybe you should be the ones leaving. (there I said it)
I would like to leave a huge thanks to
wsnipex, fritsch, cptspiff for all is help and support and fantastic kind approach, its always a pleasure to work with you, despite any easily surpassed differences. I have learned a great deal from you due to your principles though our interactions.
Walking out in support of:
and
If any fellow users and other devs who, also feel the itch I feel, fritsch felt and spiff definitely felt, you are welcome to make up your own mind what place behind the line you stand and wether or not to join our swelling ranks.
Good news for the un1versal haters fan club, whom will have more needed members, since some of those members have started to like me .
I realize in terms of value added and quality of contributions Im a drop of water in the sea of contributions these people added but I feel much like they did, because do not fool yourselfs, the internal team politics and this discord among team members is felt outside the team by everyone else who care to open eyes, and especially to those who contribute to kodi source code and are made to feel unwelcome (like I have) and pushed out and to some of these people who dared to try to make some contributions only to see them abandoned to the cob webs of time.
One thing some people in the Team do exceedingly well, is to discourage others from helping and contributing, because they are invalidated with the narrow vision which is goes against the very core which makes Kodi great.
You know who you are, and maybe you should be the ones leaving. (there I said it)
I would like to leave a huge thanks to
wsnipex, fritsch, cptspiff for all is help and support and fantastic kind approach, its always a pleasure to work with you, despite any easily surpassed differences. I have learned a great deal from you due to your principles though our interactions.
Walking out in support of:
(2016-01-01, 17:01)fritsch Wrote: Hi guys.
Time to say goodbye. Cause of differences in my way (some call it vision) of thinking where our open crossplatform kodi media center should go in the future with (not the majority) but the loudest part of the team. I will stop contributing to kodi. Thank you for your help in this thread and all the best for the future. There is no hate or anything involved, I highly appreciate the things we did in a team (when we still were a team). It's also not about who is the good and who is the bad guy. It just seems that my place is not here anymore.
To all of you: Have a brilliant future, never forget what OpenSource can do for humanity!
Edit: As I don't have moderator rights on the forum (never wanted to have rights to have advantages over real users) I cannot close this thread. Stay on topic and take care of the values and of course the humor I sent out over the last years. You all rock!
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(2013-12-20, 02:35)ironic_monkey Wrote: i urge anyone who value free software please help me save the project. i need hosting , everything else is ready. the project has been couped by the other guys and there is no hope left here. they even sensor differing opinions. this post wont live long but no other sites would post my fork announce...
cptspiff gmail com or notspiff at github
If any fellow users and other devs who, also feel the itch I feel, fritsch felt and spiff definitely felt, you are welcome to make up your own mind what place behind the line you stand and wether or not to join our swelling ranks.
Good news for the un1versal haters fan club, whom will have more needed members, since some of those members have started to like me .