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> He fully non-responsive to Linux users Well, he was nice enough to write the Linux port in the first place, and he personally develops under Linux, so... To

> He fully non-responsive to Linux users Well, he was nice enough to write the Linux port in the first place, and he personally develops under Linux, so... To develop free, general-purpose, desktop, parametric 3d CAD software is fairly thankless work. It's a huge task, and relatively few developers have the necessary mathematical skill and ME domain knowledge. The commercial market is mature, limiting opportunities to monetize. I have great respect for the time and other resources that whitequark (and others) have chosen to expend here in spite of that.

app4soft 8y ago
I'm not say that he is bad programmer or all things that he did are bad. Some things (i.e. in code) are really cool, but some are very bad (increasing dependency, mostly drop OpenGL1.x support, not providing official builds of SolveSpace for Linux, etc.) I just tell, that as maintainer (project manager of open-source software) 'whitequark' is not good at all. He always answer to users from point of coder, not from point of project manager. I still hope that SolveSpace project could get good project manager that will give for 'whitequark' more time for coding, and take out him from communication with "stupid users" For QA and communication with testers SolveSpace need another person, that will not be so rude as 'whitequark', IMHO.
app4soft 8y ago
It's look like nothing changed - whitequark still respond[0] to users and contributors in wrong way... [0] https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/318 https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/318