On 4/28/10 11:15 AM, "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > >> In Carl's defense, he's horribly busy with end-of-term teaching (which >> always penalizes one's real work, namely research) and then has a >> conference to deal with. When we deal with open-source volunteer >> projects while we have that much stress in our lives, we all get >> short-tempered. I'm certain that you can think of examples from my >> own emails. > > Sure. But there is always the option to not reply at all. That takes > even less time. Or the mixed strategy: postpone answering (mark as > unread or similar) and see if somebody else does it in time. And I was > not entirely joking when providing Carl with a stock answer I consider > more conducive in most of the situations where he would answer like he > did. > > Yes, a stock answer is never a fabulous thing to get, but if a stock > answer it is going to be, putting something nice into ~/stock might give > slightly better payoff. > > Whatever. I have currently a few syntax projects in my Lilypond pipe, > so it is unlikely that I will work on topological sorting anytime soon > (which is basically what this is about).
This is what I was assuming when I wrote my initial response. It seemed like "a good idea for somebody to do", not an offer of somebody wanting to make the change. Now, I was wrong in jumping to that assumption and responding accordingly. But it appears that my assumption was, in fact, correct. Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
