Re: about DataPilot

>         What makes you think they are being held back ? the issues around
> DataPilot that Kohei are working on have been communicated quite clearly
> to Sun - eg. i#101328 - how clear can it be: the comment "accepting it
> for 3.2" from Kohei; i#100619, i#22029 both assigned to
> Kohei, all fitting the mould of work we send up-stream.
>
>         It seems extraordinarily short sighted, and saddening to try and
> avoid co-ordination on this; it makes it appear that you almost relish
> destroying other people's work by duplication, even when they are trying
> hard to work with you - which is a highly unfortunate and unpleasant
> position. Strangely, sad to say, this is a friction that is not normally
> experienced when dealing with your co-workers.
>
>         Despite your obviously offensive mail; to make it easier for IBM to
> review the changes, I've asked Kohei to create a CWS and whack the
> patches in there - please don't do the normal witheringly negative critique,
> they may not be completely ready yet. FWIW, I'm always amused when I ask for
> design review, people prefer instead to rave about commented (or not)
> debugging fprintfs instead ;-)

>         So - the context is that Kohei has asked, politely, and reasonably
> asked, to co-ordinate this work so we don't waste effort here - he talks
> of a pipeline of changes in data-pilot, of solidifying the code. And then
> you turned him down: why all this aggressive talk of deliberate work
> duplication ?
>
>         If you choose to dig up the past, lets do it: sure - we remember
> the solver, there was my code in there too; we remember your leading
> role in destroying a volunteer's spare-time creation, your tone almost
> sounds as if you enjoyed that. I had always assumed this appalling
> initiative to abuse, divide and stifle the 'Open'Office.org project,
> purely in Sun's proprietary interest, was forced by StarDivisions's
> (visionary) senior management, rather than being cheer-lead by
> individual Sun developers.
>
> Since I see almost nothing defensible about Sun's past action
> here, I would (personally) recommend avoiding raking over it all again;
> why don't we just get on with the technical issues around improving
> the DataPilot implementation.