On Tuesday 10 December 2002 2:51 pm, Steve Lamont wrote: > It may be that I am not the right person for this job, inasmuch as my > professional responsibilities continue to evolve and my collaborative > projects continue to proliferate.
Nah! > I am chastened. Don't be. None of this was meant as a personal jibe. I just wanted to know the lie of the land. I don't envisage the volume of mail coming to this list increasing much in the future. (There aren't exactly many of us out there ;-) Nor do I picture a need for huge amounts of code to be updated. I'm basically extremely happy with xforms as it is. As such I regard you as the right man doing the right thing as time allows. Fine. I'm also happy if considered opinion to any patch I post comes back a week or so later. It seems to me that you're the one who knows most about the source (given that TC is not available). As such, you have far more idea than I do about why some things are as they are. Dissemination of that knowledge by way of constructive criticism of any proposed change is a GOOD THING. The speed at which patches are rolled into the source is largely an irrelevance. It that was all I was worried about, it'd be trivially easy for me to set up an xforms tree on the lyx cvs server and to fork development. It's just that I'm really not interested in doing that. > > In many cases, I've mentioned many of them on this list before. I have > > often posted sample patches to this list that "cured" the problem to some > > extent. For sure, many of these patches were sub-optimal, but the > > resulting discussion has, in most cases, been nil. Zip. Nada. > > > > IMO, that's not the sign of a healthy development process, hence my > > desire to know your vision of the future. > > I'm not sure I completely understand this criticism. A bug fix is a > bug fix. If it works, it works, if it doesn't, it doesn't. It's > generally obvious on the face of it. The bug fixes you've submitted > are either already incorporated or enqueued for 1.1. Umm. What I meant was that many of these "bug fixes" I post are, at-best, sub-optimal. Simply because I'm learning my way around the code base. The occassional suggestion from you might lead to an improved patch that works in the general case not just some subset of it. Don't you just hate email? It's so easy to get/give the wrong impression. Please regard me as a friendly, if occasionally noisy, voice. Kind regards, Angus
