I did try not to respond to this. On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 08:57:10PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> I'd rather officially lift the freeze for a short while and let > everybody work on his pet project in this time. This also includes XML > support as this is a thing of fairly high 'public interest' which also > happens to be comparatively independent of the current core problems. A decision was already made once that has screwed up LyX 1.4, please don't do it again... > The idea that in freeze time everybody starts fixing bugs might be nice > in theory but seemingly does not work too well in reality. And this time > is not the first time. 1.2 was no better. We could have had 1.4 out of the door by now if we'd stopped soon after Lars' STL-in-the-core changes. > I'd really like to have a happy, busy lyx-devel list doing fancy things > _including_ fixing a bug from time to time instead of a dead list with > two kinds of corpses: Those that can't fix 'deep' bugs because they just > started finding their ways around in LyX source, and those that > theoretically could but feel defeated from several hundred open bugs and > seemingly no support from anybody else. You actively chose to rip the core code to shreds in the hope somebody miight have time to rebuild it, and convinced Lars of it. I tried as hard as I could to evangelise against this for precisely these reasons, but lost the argument. I don't want to annoy you any more, so I'll leave it here, but please don't complain about situations you knowingly created. regards, john
