angry Stellarium people

After a nasty flame war and some very unfriendly behavior on the Stellarium / Sourceforge forum at the beginning of December, I saw another conversation rapidly erode...

Merv noted that there was no information about the meteors shown in the software, no names, no details. He asked, perhaps a bit abruptly, if this could be rectified.

Rob, the writer of the meteor component, explained that he never intended to simulate a named shower. And the radiant was simply where the Earth was headed toward. So, totally random.

Then Dotan said, "Exactly what technical measure did you expect Stellarium to employ to know where a meteor is falling at any given moment, in real time?" Holy crikey. Here we go again! Dotan needs to take a pill.

Merv seemed to take it somewhat in stride: "I expected that Stellarium would show meteor showers according to the annual dates that they would occur. If, as I understand you to say, they are just randomly generated then I regard it as useless."

Not fun.