The sooner someone forks p2pool from the donation demanding invisible-dev here, the sooner the community can start developing p2pool to make it compatible with all the available mining hardware.
Forking is only useful when the original dev doesn't develop and doesn't accept patches. Obviously you didn't bother to educate yourself on the current state of p2pool by reading the list of past year's commit.
His wording may be wrong/incorrect but his point isn't.
IYFT simply stated he wants to move p2pool forward, not put this on hiatus like forrestv said.
Yes, IYFT
simply stated. Some people here are really good at stating things (between sad facts and blatant lies with gross exaggerations in between).
IYFT wants to move p2pool forward? Where is his code that forrestv didn't want to merge?
Or is it that he thinks that simply stating things will move p2pool forward. That's more or less the definition of a spoiled child.
P2pool is free, open-source, no-one forces anyone to use it and to give anything to the author (or don't they know how to read?) but that's not enough, the author doesn't have the right to his own life and should develop new code in a timely manner just because some people would like to have their needs fulfilled?
Guess what: all more and less stable pools donate to the maintainer more than what we give forrestv although they don't have to solve the same technical problems (and most of them fall to DoS attacks on occasion, which I've yet to witness on p2pool). Without forrestv everyone on p2pool would pay between 2 or 3% of their income to pool operators or risk suffering downtimes or even losses when pools vanish into thin air (if you don't know what I mean, you probably didn't mine for long: pools with 0 fees are a little too good to be true, some simply cheat you of merged-mined coins for example...). Everybody using it (correctly with compatible hardware) is earning money.
It doesn't do what you need? Don't use it until it does, end of story. It does? What is your reason not to thank the author for your additional gains which you wouldn't have without him (greed excluded of course)?