Proposal: Author status for Teo Mrnjavac and Alejandro Wainzinger

[Seb Ruiz]

Nikolaj, Teo & Alex,
Heartfelt apologies if I have hurt or offended any of you. Perhaps I
should be taking a bit of my own medicine and I should HTFU and stop
being such a bully with some issues. I have always tried to make my
decisions for the good of the project, but obviously sometimes this
can get out of hand and I can get side tracked by my own personal hang
ups.

In light the discussions, and extensive thought - I am willing to man
up and say I was wrong about most things that I wrote. Please regard
my position as support for both proposed authors.

Seb

2009/8/22 Nikolaj Hald Nielsen <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com>:
>> Whilst the above are all true, I think that Teo still has a lot to
>> learn about our community. I find that at times he can be abrasive
>> with other team members and doesn't take criticism well.
>
> Seb, you recently gave Teo and me a dose of, I think the term you used
> was, "Australian directness". Now it's my turn.
>
> I know you do not mean it this way, but taking criticism from you can
> be quite a lot like getting the living daylights beat out of you. I
> know this, as you damn near scared me away for good when I took my
> first small steps towards joining the Amarok project some years back.
> You have a form of written expression that tend to make people,
> especially those who don't know you, feel that you are targeting them
> personally. While people eventually lean to filter your criticism down
> to the factual basis (which is always there) I have had to convince
> Teo several times that you are not on a personal mission to belittle
> him at every chance you get.
>
> As such the communication between you and Teo has been less than
> smooth, but I do not think this is an indication of a general
> inability on Teo's part to accept criticism. And I do not agree with
> this reason for not making Teo an author.
>
>> ps - these are my personal thoughts and obviously do not reflect that
>> of the "Amarok project". If anybody feels that I am being too harsh,
>> or that we have not judged previous candidates with such scrutiny,
>> please voice your thoughts.
>
> I can only speak for myself, but I don't think the bar was set quite
> as high when I got accepted as an Author, and at the time, my
> contributions were still solidly focuses on the Magnatune stuff and I
> had done little code beyond that.
>
> - Nikolaj
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