Darky betrayed by his own crew :(

[tuxgirl]

That's true about the domain not being his, but the domain itself (and the server, and the bandwidth) were all bought and paid for by donations to the DarkyROM project, made when Darky was still very much active. As Swiper says, it's a tough one to call.

One thing is quite clear, communication is everything on a project of any kind.

There is an explanation from Darky IN THIS GOOGLE+ POST, which he explains his side more clearly.

I can understand the feelings from both sides, it's just a shame because they had a good product.

The latest according to twitter is that they are to split into two separate "organisations" - Darky and Swiss Android going one way while Ficeto, Robbie and Goldie go the other. It could prove good for us end users (more roms to choose from) or bad (it fizzles out altogether and there is one or two less developers prepared to support our devices). This info is subject to change of course.

Eventually, it'll be the community that decides which becomes more popular. Ficeto is the Kernel man though, and unless Darky finds a top notch coder, and quickly, he's going to have one hell of an uphill struggle on his hands. Ficeto controls the user database (and thus userbase).

Why can't we all just get along? Life's too short.

The fact it was paid for by the users is another point... it would have been polite for Darky to have at least posted laying out the plan and asking what people thought about the transfer, given that they paid for the domain and the server.

Plus, he admits himself in that G+ post that he didn't bother asking the other main members... how did he expect them to react? If he'd told them before, posted on the forum about the plans and then Ficeto et al had reacted like he imagines they would have, he would have good reason to be annoyed. But by his own admission, he didn't communicate, he just went behind everyone's back and did it. I can't imagine very many people being impressed at someone doing that to them, especially when they hadn't really been playing a key role in the project for many months.

The irony is that his plan is okay, he makes some very fair points, he just handled it very badly because he didn't communicate with the people who kept his project alive whilst he took time out... and now he seems to be trying to place all the blame for his bad handling on the others.

[Goots]

I agree with your main point there, and I told him as much in my reply to his G+ post

Thinking about it, my topic title "Darky betrayed by his own crew" could just have easily been "Darky betrays own crew" - depending on ones point of view.

[tuxgirl]

I really hope if the projected split does happen, that every new rom release from both isn't greeted with the other side going "They stole my code! I designed *this*, *this* and *this*". I think the best thing for everyone would be for both sides to agree to split, and move on amicably.

[Swipermusic]

It certainly looks like it is going to happen and soon. Users must then decide whether to follow one way or the other, or both. The more I read about both points of view (Ficeto and Joel) the more confused I become really.

[Doomed]

Now for the wait and to see if it was worth it. I'm going to be the piggy in the middle

[stonkr]

Is it me, or are there parallels to Star Wars?

The rebels battling against the Dark One.














Just me, then.

[biccys]

All very unsavoury IMO. Neither side are whiter than white. I see also that Robbie had banned TotallyDubbed a while bakc, but he's back as a moderator now.... Methinks this one will run and run.

Oh and Goots, ICS Slim (build 3.7 with Semaphore 1.2 is FAB.) is far quicker than all the other ICS roms out there and rock solid. Never had a single FC from it. Give it a whirl...

[Swipermusic]

All very unsavoury IMO. Neither side are whiter than white. I see also that Robbie had banned TotallyDubbed a while bakc, but he's back as a moderator now.... Methinks this one will run and run.

Oh and Goots, ICS Slim (build 3.7 with Semaphore 1.2 is FAB.) is far quicker than all the other ICS roms out there and rock solid. Never had a single FC from it. Give it a whirl...

F1 is really quick!

[Goots]

Hmm maybe it's time for me to try an ICS build again then - things have moved on I guess...

On a *slightly* related note, anyone running a Ficeto Base ROM (such as myself), might notice that the DarkyOTA app has suddenly become the AllianceOTA App - AllianceROM being the new name for the split DarkyROM members. As Ficeto owns the server, he can do that. Thankfully, it's still one hell of an awesome app

I'm not sure if DarkyROM users will see this change, maybe someone could confirm? (You might have to update your App manually through google play to see the difference, but mine renamed itself automagically).

[Swipermusic]

Goots I still use the OTA app with my f1 rom although I don't need it really. I love F1 so much its real slick.