Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Georg Baum wrote: >> 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.
And that coming from the guy who wrote I should not write "you should" so often :-) Sorry, but leading as in "imposing my view on everybody else" with very little action on my side is nothing I am interested in. And as you found out yourself it does not work either ;-) >> 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. I am all for short release cycles. Unfortunately bugs don't fix themselves, and as it looks now some are set to stay forever. The funny thing is that LyX is supposed to be in hard freeze since October, but nobody cares. >> 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. The armenian stuff is a perfect example why this does not work: Uwe did the work and has a different opinion than me. He sees one minor quirk, I see several minor and one big one. This is my area of expertise, so I could fix all the issues after Uwe is finished, and I know he won't oppose. But this way, others are dictating what I would do, and all fun is gone. Of course I could simply ignore what others are doing and work on some pet projects. Then I could have some fun, but that would be unfair to everybody doing bug fixing, and the overall result would still be something I don't like, because it would contain stuff like the armenian support. Georg
