On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org>wrote:
> 28/04/2014 23:37, Uwe Stöhr: > > You mention an important point: We don't have a development plan. What >> do many customers need and what does only please us developers? We never >> did a user survey on our webpages and the lists. >> For example I use math ad chemistry equations almost daily and it would >> be fun to add support for all \xarrow commands in math. But who will use >> this feature except of math experts? >> > > This is how open source software works. Developers do what they want. I do > not mean that they do stuff that nobody want. But if some one wants some > "boring" feature to be implemented, they have to pay someone to do it. It > is as simple as that. > > JMarc > > On one hand, if we would have a clear plan on what we want to have in LyX 2.2, for example, people might be indeed working on those things. On the other hand, we have a list of bugs targeted to 2.1.x and 2.2.0, but those bugs are there for years and we move them from 1.6.x to 2.0.x to 2.1.x .... and it doesn't seem to be a major point of interest to the developers. ....or we should come up with a rule that no new features get into LyX if they are not in the agreed plan, but I doubt whether there are developers left if we do that. Vincent
