On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote: > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >> Thanks for the vote of confidence, but your comments prove that my >> second point is correct. We have allowed ourselves to stall releases >> of updated code, because we keep talking about our hopes for the > > We knew that could be a problem, but it only became an issue because > other things failed. > >> Also, while I do agree with you on the 'performance' of some >> maintainers, this IS a volunteer effort, and people change. We need to > > Sure, but then there's the manner. Doing a last drop of buggy code and > then leaving isn't exactly the best way to part ways with a project > you've contributed to. > >> move on, and find new maintainers if possible. > > Yup. We should now deprecate any backend that doesn't have a maintainer > today. Only way to get the message accross at that point. > > Move the backends to another directory, add an option to make it > possible to build those backends, but disable them by default.
I wont agree to do that for any sane 1.0 release. However, I think we can do that for sane 2.0, but I dont want to cloud the current discussion. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
