Ceasing ALSA involvement due to persistent ill-treatment

Ceasing ALSA involvement due to persistent ill-treatment

[Jonathan Woithe]

I will keep this brief.
   
When things get to the point where every post one makes to alsa-devel is
responded to with personal attacks, disdain, contempt or hostility, where
one's extensive practical and technical experience is dismissed as being
invalid at every opportunity, and one is consequently anxious about reading
the responses to one's posts in alsa-devel, it's clearly time to walk away.
Sadly, this is the situation I find myself in so walking away is what I will
do once this message has been posted.

Moving firewire audio streaming functionality into the kernel has been a
long term goal of the FFADO project.  Having a decade of experience working
successfully with these devices under Linux through FFADO and its
predecessors, I was planning to lend assistance to the ALSA firewire
streaming driver development effort.  Unfortunately, it has become  
abundantly clear that for some reason this is not welcomed (or even
tolerated) by some, so instead I will devote my time to the maintenance of
FFADO and my other Open Source projects.

Although *extremely* miniscule in comparison to the deplorable harassment
directed toward others in the Open Source community in the past, the
treatment I have received has given me a fresh perspective on the effect
that continued attacks can have on a person's attitude to life, and why many
good developers have completely turned their back on the entire Open Source
movement when faced with these kinds of issues.  The Open Source community
has wonderfully awesome people, but it is clear how the misdirected actions
of a few can so easily drive people away.

I wish the ALSA project well for its future work, and urge project members
to treat all participants with the basic human rights of respect and dignity  
which were not afforded to me over the past two years on alsa-devel.        

Regards
  jonathan

Re: Ceasing ALSA involvement due to persistent ill-treatment

[gianluca]

On 01/30/2017 02:45 PM, Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> I will keep this brief.
>

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> I wish the ALSA project well for its future work, and urge project members
> to treat all participants with the basic human rights of respect and dignity
> which were not afforded to me over the past two years on alsa-devel.


It is always sad to read this kind of stuff in a everyday work. It is 
sadder to see it in a Open Source Project where the main goal of the 
community is *BEING COMMUNITY*.

I hope Jonathan will regret to this option, and all people who is 
fighting by words with him, will make the things clearer and clearer.

In the honor of Open Source Community, a place where the ideas of 
EVERYONE are debated and reworked in a clever way, not offending anyone.

Please excuse me for the bad-written-english but it is not my native 
spoken language, and hoping to drive all of you in the right direction 
of my speech,

I remain,
yours faithfully,
-- 
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Re: Ceasing ALSA involvement due to persistent ill-treatment

[Nicholas Bailey]

On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 00:15:31 GMT Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> ...
> tolerated) by some, so instead I will devote my time to the maintenance of
> FFADO and my other Open Source projects.
>
Thank heaven's for that! We use it all the time. Very solid. Thank you for all 
your work on FFADO, and I wish I'd said that under happier circumstances.

Nick Bailey
Director
Science and Music Research Group
School of Engineering
The University of Glasgow
UK