Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:33 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >> Frightening rather. I don't spend enough time defending LilyPond >> against awful patches as it is. [...] >> It is easy to make it easier to meddle with LilyPond code. The low >> number of contributors is not due to our toolchains. It is because few >> people are comfortable poking around in the dark. And for good reason. > > While i agree with the problems you outline (not enough comments, > maintenance timebombs etc), it's fascinating to observe that while i > wouldn't say that you're a downright pessimist (and you certainly > don't lack a sense of humour), so many of your emails are dark and > menacing! ;-)
An optimist is one willing to believe we are living in the best of all conceivable worlds. A pessimist is one who knows it. In the last few days, I have not done any serious coding. The most challenging achievement was probably my attempt of dooming to obliteration a whole bunch of code that Pál spent a lot of thought and work and polishing on without much feedback, without giving the impression that I am not valuing his work and efforts. And some of that might have been avoidable if I had really thought hard about this previously. Things had already moved in an unfortunate direction with unfortunate results before Pál even started on his project, and it actually took his try to sort things out better to make a detailed analysis of what we actually want, and agree on rules that are much more stupid than what he came up with. I don't want _anybody_ to experience the feeling of having wasted his time unnecessarily on something. We want to keep people motivated for working on LilyPond. And that means different things in the short run, and in the long run. The current discussions are also taking a lot of energy and don't make me particularly comfortable. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
