Re: Writing successful open source

2005-11-23 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:06:56PM +, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:20:30PM +, Jose' Matos wrote: > > > I read this and found it interesting as reflection for the next development > > term: > > > > http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005/11/writing-successful-open-source.html >

Re: Writing successful open source

2005-11-23 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:37:35PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > Remember how much fun you used to have! You almost never said "Bah!" > back then. Not even to Andr?! Life was a lot easier when I wasn't a wage slave, yeah. john

Re: Writing successful open source

2005-11-23 Thread Angus Leeming
John Levon wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> John Levon wrote: >> > But we have MUCH bigger fish to fry first, namely Unicode and >> > text styles. It'd be really disappointing if LyX didn't manage to >> > get these solved soon, and they really are core features. >> >> As ever, the problem is that

Re: Writing successful open source

2005-11-23 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:20:08PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: > John Levon wrote: > > But we have MUCH bigger fish to fry first, namely Unicode and text > > styles. It'd be really disappointing if LyX didn't manage to get > > these solved soon, and they really are core features. > > As ever, the

Re: Writing successful open source

2005-11-23 Thread Angus Leeming
John Levon wrote: > But we have MUCH bigger fish to fry first, namely Unicode and text > styles. It'd be really disappointing if LyX didn't manage to get > these solved soon, and they really are core features. As ever, the problem is that we have about 0.2 active developers ATM. If you want some p

Re: Writing successful open source

2005-11-23 Thread John Levon
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:20:30PM +, Jose' Matos wrote: > I read this and found it interesting as reflection for the next development > term: > > http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005/11/writing-successful-open-source.html The lack of extensibility within LyX is a serious problem, no doubt. As s

Re: Writing successful open source

2005-11-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jose'" == Jose' Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jose'> Hello, I read this and found it interesting as reflection for Jose'> the next development term: Jose'> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005/11/writing-successful-open-source.html Very interesting indeed. JMarc

Re: Writing successful open source

2005-11-16 Thread Gour
Martin Vermeer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Very appropriate. I have been tempted to propose, for the next phase of > LyX development, instead of aiming at one big new feature, to aim at > simplification, simplification, simplification (of the code base, that > is). Though I know I'm guilty of fea

Re: Writing successful open source

2005-11-16 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:20:30PM +, Jose' Matos wrote: > Hello, > > I read this and found it interesting as reflection for the next development > term: > > http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005/11/writing-successful-open-source.html > > > I hope this helps. > -- > José Abílio Very appropriat

Writing successful open source

2005-11-16 Thread Jose' Matos
Hello, I read this and found it interesting as reflection for the next development term: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2005/11/writing-successful-open-source.html I hope this helps. -- José Abílio