http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2011/05/12/political-roadblocks/

The first two paragraphs, for your reading pleasure...

Mame 0.142u3 made big strides towards the MAME/MESS codebase merge, however,
unsurprisingly the move has since hit political roadblocks, and the majority of
the work I put into doing this for the release has once again been reverted.

It’s a shame that in this day and age there are people involved in the teams
who have no interest in progress, no interest in advancing the project, but
just want to block changes and prevent progress being made entirely for
political reasons, and personal grudges.

Then anyone can go fork. Don't beg them to make it public. Just do it.

Fuck SVN.

pixel-eight.com

I would have so covered this, but I'm not.

Their is not enough of a sk3n3 left to make it worth any effort these days. Let the sweet prince pass on you guyses, Haze still going at it is strange.

Shouldn't Haze stop caring and just release some unofficial version of the project? Who cares if he were to do that? Some 10 Mame devs? It is only like 10 people, maybe 30 total people with some loyal fans. Everyone else really won't care.

Can't exactly be pwned with actual care these days with the lack of an actual emu community.

Regards,
EMU-LMAO

> Then anyone can go fork. Don't beg them to make it public. Just do it.
>
> Fuck SVN.

Check the ninth comment down in the post above the one we're talking about; that's where all the discussion ended up. Haze brings up a pretty good point about forking, namely:

"the problem with MAME is that unless something is in the mainline it’s more or less not worth doing.

"The heavy code-churn of the projects means that trying to maintain an additional fork of my own would just be a huge amount of effort for a minimum number of users testing it, with always the possibility of something breaking due to errors on my part, rather than actual breakage in the mainline build."

Not disagreeing with you, but he does make a pretty compelling case for why everything needs to be tied to SVN. About the only thing that would work effectively would be to move the entire source tree into Git, but I can't see that happening as things stand now.