[Openchrome-devel] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Correcting some comments I made about Xavier Bachelot and OpenChrome patch review process

Xavier Bachelot xavier at bachelot.org
Wed Apr 13 20:51:12 UTC 2016


Hi Kevin,

On 08/04/2016 04:07, Kevin Brace wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I will like to offer a correction regarding several comments I made about Xavier Bachelot who has been a long time project maintainer for OpenChrome project.
> I made several comments on this mailing list (openchrome-devel mailing list), possibly on the sister mailing list (openchrome-users mailing list), and on bugs.freedesktop.org that I felt ignored by Xavier for a very long period (i.e., from October 2015 until March 2016), and implied that he was an irresponsible person who abandoned the OpenChrome project for many months, only to return recently.
> Benno Schulenberg brought to my attention that Xavier did send me an e-mail to him, James Simmons (another project maintainer who has since disappeared), another potential developer (who has since disappeared as well), and me on January 2nd, 2016.
> I have known the existence of this e-mail to some extent from January 2016 since I saw the portion Benno was quoting (I received that e-mail from Benno.), but since I mistakenly assumed that Xavier did not send the original e-mail in question to me (but assumed that it was sent to Benno, James, and another potential developer only), I felt excluded back then.
> I did go back to my gmx.com e-mail account, and searched e-mails from Xavier, and it turns out Xavier did indeed send the very original e-mail in question on January 2nd, 2016.
> Xavier asked for non-disclosure of the contents of the e-mail, so I will not discuss what was discussed in it.
> In retrospect (after I found the unread e-mail in question today), he had a very valid reason why he was not able to communicate with me for a long time, and I definitely accept that as a valid reason why he did not reply to my e-mails.
> Please do not ask or speculate about what was said in the e-mail.
> I regret this error, and apologize to Xavier Bachelot for potentially ruining his reputation.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Kevin Brace

I gladly accept your apologize.
Now let's all forget about the misunderstanding and get back to make
openchrome beautiful :-)

Regards,
Xavier




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