On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:46:12PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > >>It seems people have the priorities wrong. I think you need to rank > > >>efforts based on how much it brings thing forward per time unit, because > > >>LyX is chronically resource starved. > > > > > >Which is why it's a huge problem when uncontrolled development is > > >allowed (see pretty much ever major LyX release, ever, but *especially* > > >the huge quagmire 1.4cvs got itself into). > > > > As an exercise for the reader - maybe your skill level will improve - go > > back and read what I wrote, and tell me what should have been done > > differently in the 1.4.x cycle. > > I am not John, but my answer to the question is that the freeze should > have been revoked when it turned out that (almost) nobody actually > worked on fixing the blockers instead of running into a deadlock.
Normally I wouldn't agree but given the situation that might well have helped. But generally my answer is do not integrate anything that makes things worse unless it is well known what those problems are and there's a clear plan to fix it. It's known as not breaking the gate and pretty familiar to people I think :) I think the lack of resources is a red herring in this respect. It's never OK to seriously regress without a plan. regards john
