Georg Baum wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2007 18:42 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes:
I guess Georg is facing a dilemma, maybe it's the same as the one I am
facing: on one hand I'd like to continue to develop small things and do
some bug corrections, things that don't require too much time. On the
other hand, those small things always end-up being just too time
consuming and you then become too involved in so many things.
To be honest I feel coaxed :-) But I also think that I need to give yet
another explanation why I stopped contributing, because the possible
reason given above is not entirely correct.
I was of course speaking for myself :-)
First I _really_ have very
little spare time currently, so this time has to be very well spent.
That's what I tried to said yes.
Then I _really_ dislike some recent changes in LyX development. I don't
think I need to reiterate all of them, one example can be seen in my other
mail of today.
Georg, you know very well that you have to get involved in order to
lead. Uwe is simply not as competent as you in this field, I guess none
of us is.
Another one is too little focus on 1.5.0 release.
That's the reason why I proposed to release it soon and impose a short
period of hard freeze for bug fixing.
For example, restarting
the work on insetlisting now is ridicolous. Sorry Bo and José, but that is
how I see it, and believe me, this is something I have been wanting for a
long time.
I trust Jose and Bo to not do something inappropriate and I am sure that
they heard your argument.
Since it would be arrogant to demand from all of you to adjust to my wishes
for the very little amount I could contribute I chose the other
alternative: Don't help with a product that I cannot endorse.
What about this third alternative: contribute to your area expertise and
focus on that. You don't have to endorse all of 1.5, only the changes
that you authored. 1.5.0 will be a damn good release, the initial
reaction from the users list shows. You are probably the biggest
contributor in 1.5 and you should feel proud of it.
If you find
a bug in code from me feel free to ask for a fix (CC me since I am not
reasding the list regularly), but I am not going to do more than that.
Please accept that.
As you wish.
Abdel.
