<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Hi</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 25 Sept 2024 at 20:28, Andreas Mantke <<a href="mailto:maand@gmx.de">maand@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">><br>
it's the duty of every member of TDF to support the foundation, its<br>
purposes, goals and its community (including the source code etc. the<br>
community is working on) in the first place and to put private (etc.)<br>
interests aside (if you like it or not).<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Rubbish. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">There is no commitment, implied or explicit, for people to put aside their other interests in favour of TDF.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">There is also no commitment for people to do work for other people in the foundation.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">In this specific situation, you even seem to think that other people are required to meet your requests within some time bound.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">That is not how this works. You are free to ask, but as volunteers, we are under no obligation to assist.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">If you need a set of patches in a git branch, it is extremely easy for you to maintain your own branch of master, either as a personal branch on gerrit, or on your own git server.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">-- Noel Grandin.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div>