On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:39:09AM +0200, Michael Schmitt wrote: > - We need some reward for people fixing bugs and polishing LyX 1.4.0 > (I was thinking about sending a small present each week to the person > that has fixed the most bugs. Any proposals for such a present are > welcome.)
Something like a decent job offer to the first person fixing 100 bugs on bugzilla? ;-) > - We should stop implementing new stuff and start fixing and completing > the existing features (after Martin has committed his box inset, of > course) The idea is ok, but I'd not be too strict about it. There are a few people which probably can't help much with the real problems, and I don't think we need to stop them working on non-intrusive improvements. > - We should stop polishing the kernel. LyX 1.3.3 works despite a lot of > design flaws. Thus, I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to release > a stable 1.4.0 based on the current code We are somehow in a transitional state. Going from there to a 'it somehow works' state is probably the same amount of work as fixing it properly. In fact, I think there's not too much to be fixed left. There are 11 critical bugs right now, coming in two suits: A somehow unitialized LyXText and a *ed up table access. The latter is probably easily spotted by someone spending some time reading the code. The former might be a bit harder. But again, it could be that simply swapping a few lines fixes it. Than there are 153 'normal' bugs. Quite a few of them are reLyX/round-trip related. No biggo. Should be verified against tex2lyx by someone... Ok. Left with say ~4 people and ~12 weeks until Chrismas, this makes three bugs to be fixed per week and active developer? Does this sound unreasonable? I don't think so. > - WE NEED A REAL BOSS THAT TELLS US WHAT TO DO - AND WHEN! > (LARS, PLEASE SPEAK TO US) This won't help and only frustrate Lars and a few others... Andre'
