From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8f734cdbc8408497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kingdon@harvey.cyclic.com (Jim Kingdon) Subject: Re: Gnat 2.06 Ada95 (unix) File format???? Date: 1996/06/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 160659487 sender: kingdon@harvey.cyclic.com references: <4pmfr5$epc@news3.digex.net> organization: very little newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > I personally have a hard time getting along/working with this kind of > personality. I quit contributing to the GNU project several years ago GNU is not the only free software project which has (at times) been plagued by conflict among the contributors. *BSD has also had at least its share. In my opinion, although personalities are one of the easiest things to point to, the structures and policies (written and unwritten) of the project have more to do with the existence and severity of problems. In the case of CVS, I (and others) have put significant effort into preventing and mitigating conflicts, and IMHO we've been fairly successful (so far; our current structure is a young one). It will be interesting to see what happens to GNAT as ACT matures and adjusts to its customer-funded rather than DARPA-funded role. Certainly during the time I was at Cygnus my thinking on these issues evolved, and probably the thinking of other people at Cygnus did too.