On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:25 PM, rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote: > We are sorry if you find us "unwelcoming". But we (indeed, and specifically, > I) have tried to encourage your participation in many different ways, only > to be told, each time, that you are going to do things on your terms or not > at all.
That has not been my experience. I have been "invited" to do things your way or get the highway: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg150524.html "That is why I don't support including it within LyX. [...] Alex, do you know C++? I'd be happy to help with this, once exams are over." And I have been "encouraged" to give you support with this project of yours: "And then, of course, there's the fact that you've already done so much of the hard work. My intention, if it's OK with you, is pretty much to borrow from what you've already done, at least as far as the format of the HTML output is concerned. [...] By the way, in order for me to do that, it may be necessary for you to relicense, or dual license, eLyXer." All this for a project to which, by your own words, you have devoted "a handful of hours" in half a year. I don't think that qualifies as "encourage my participation in many different ways", but "require me to be your bitch", if you pardon my French. Another curiosity from the record: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg150501.html "Just to be clear, here are what I regard as the showstoppers: Theorem-type environments aren't rendered; math support is marginal, esp with regard to custom macros; BibTeX isn't supported, so far as I can tell; cross-references omit the related text. Other things I'd want to investigate would include support for AMS environments, and arrays and the like generally; treatment of mini pages and the like. I also worry about the lack of extensibility, i.e., the inability to deal with custom styles." Are you going to apply the same criteria to "LyX HTML"? Will you not enable it until it supports theorem-type environments, full math support, custom macros, BibTeX, AMS environments, mini-pages and custom styles, to start with? So according to Pavel "LyX HTML" is the long-term option -- when do you estimate it will be complete and supporting all these features? And for the record, eLyXer now supports everything in your list except for custom macros and custom styles, which (as your hours of work in "LyX HTML" will have shown you) are impossible to do. So I guess that you should be supporting eLyXer now that most showstoppers have been solved. > That is up to you. But we have been down that road before with other > developers who turned out not to be "team players", and we do not wish to > travel it again. LyX is a collaborative enterprise, and being a "team > player" is much more important than anything else you might have to offer > (especially since you have said, repeatedly, that you have nothing but > elyxer to offer). After reviewing the quotes above, that you don't think I am a "team player" is rather flattering. > So, if you want only to do your thing and your way, then you can of course > do so, but then you need to keep elyxer your project. I mean, honestly, do > you really want to put elyxer in svn and then have me do with it as I > please? I have mixed feelings. Your lack of technical knowledge is worrying, but at the same time your lack of dedication balances things off quite a bit :P Alex.
