Did you seriously really think this is a good idea undermining the SleepyHead project like you have done Pholy?
If you push software creators away from their own work, the whole community loses out.
People seem to LOVE speaking in my behalf despite it absolutely infuriating me, and I've been misquoted and taken out of context a lot, to the point people believed I've stopped working on SleepyHead altogether, when this was NOT true, and now have a FREAKING HUGE AMOUNT of high quality code I haven't released yet for a damn good and logical reason hanging in the balance while I struggle to resist the urge to throw this stinking computer against a wall because of all of this!
I'm not anti-community or anti-contribution, I had my reasons for killing 1.x off and pushing towards 2.0 code review and rework, so we could share a stable codebase to work from without critical design flaws getting in the way from back when I was a migraine addled wreck suffering from poorly treated OSA. Those reasons should have been respected.
Yes, It's true I unfortunately had to slow my project work and interactions down, because I hit a point in life where I need to "man up" and prioritise on my family obligations, and had no choice but to limit (not STOP!) my project work until I found a solution to sorting out some financial issues: Now my health has improved to the point I CAN work a normal job, I NEED to work to earn some money to pay my fair share of household bills like any other respectable father and husband should.
SleepyHead project donors are truly appreciated, they have helped me greatly in covering Sleepyhead's operational costs, like remote servers, domain costs, basic office needs, and helping me keep my cross platform hardware and software configurations and necessary tools in working order. Without them I couldn't do this, as the financial burden would have been too great, and am grateful to them from the bottom of my heart.
So far though, my actual time spent working on SleepyHead has entirely been unpaid volunteer labour, so my existence during this time has been funded entirely by my wife Laura (thanks Laura, like times a million!), while I've struggled with my thankfully now improving health. This slowdown in development was only a temporary situation, and I was actively looking into longer term options to make it work that WOULD NOT HAVE affected SleepyHead's OpenSource & Free (As in Freedom) software status.
I've put in more combined hours each year (largely in a flurries of polyphasic sleep power-coding bursts followed by recovery periods which I know people dislike, but allowed me to work around my limitations) into SleepyHead than many of you would put into your day jobs, just to bring you all this software. (If you doubt this and you're one of those that misunderstands the software development cycle and judges my work solely on code output, look at
https://www.openhub.net/p/sleepyhead/estimated_cost <- you can mock or discredit the Basic Cocomo model all you want, I'm just using it to demonstrate the effort I put into SleepyHead was far more than many realise, and this isn't including the 2.0 major cleanup mind you, which adds another years worth of code to that...)
Just remember to think of Jedimark next time your boss asks you to do free overtime and you tell him to shove it... I've worked 8 YEARS literally primarily for just the gratitude, love and respect of SleepyHead users (which part I DON'T regret at all), just for ApneaBoard & Pholy to sh*t on my efforts and take over when I was already pushing enough sh*t uphill.
Doing this without consulting with me was utterly disgusting. I NEVER gave Arie the go ahead for this to happen, he immediately took something I said right out of context, and completely ignored me asking him to let me think on it and NOT jump ahead by discussing it with anyone else.
ApneaBoard should never have allowed any of this to happen and needs to correct this for the good of SleepyHead and CPAP users worldworld. But hey, whatever drives traffic over here, right? ?
And Pholy, why do this? You weren't even capable of submitting a simple merge request, I'd never in hell appoint you as a maintainer for SleepyHead... 3 times in a row you managed to royally mess up submitting your patches and trashed SleepyHead's official master REPO out of being too lazy to resync against it beforehand.. Each time it took some careful GIT surgery to put right the mess you caused, and now look what your doing! You were also one of those calling for me to quit at the start of last year because my UNPAID level of performance wasn't to your liking, and you were the first person to suggest I'd given up. It's starting to look pretty darn clear from the start of this you had an agenda to undermine my work. SHAME ON YOU!