Agree, Brane managed to put in words what has been troubling me and was not able to pinpoint it exactly: "It's not an engineering problem, it's a management problem;"
And somebody will have to do it, end we are all engineers :) Peter On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11.10.2012 05:49, Olemis Lang wrote: > >> None of the above is a showstopper, but the interlocked dependencies > >> will make managing feature-stable Bloodhound releases a bit like > >> juggling eggs. It can be done, but you'd better not drop one. :) > >> > > well ... that has already happened . Trac-devs changed component > > architecture slightly in 1.0 . Hence ThemeEnginePlugin didn't work > > anymore . So we submitted a patch to t-h.o issue tracker . > > ThemeEnginePlugin has not been updated since 2 years ago , nobody > > cared . We managed to patch our own copy of Trac to make it work > > without requiring any changes in ThemeEnginePlugin . That's exactly > > what we are all using nowadays , otherwise the new design would not be > > a reality . I requested maintainership of ThemeEnginePlugin days ago > > and I'm in charge now ... so I don't see the storm coming yet . > > /You/ requested maintainership. How does that help Apache Bloodhound if, > two weeks or two years from now, you find a new interest in life and > stop maintaining it? > > The issue I see here is that, essentially, the Apache Bloodhound > community doesn't have any real control over some of the core components > of Bloodhound-the-product. That's nothing new in either Apache or open > source in general; the difference is that BH has so /many/ mandatory > external dependencies for very fundamental, core functionality. > > It's not an engineering problem, it's a management problem; and > open-source projects are notoriously bad at handling complex management > problems. > > I guess I'm just worried about the long-term stability and viability of > the project. > > > <joke> > > Titanium eggs never break , sir > > :D > > </joke> > > But they sure can get squashed. :-P > > -- Brane > > -- > Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: > http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download > >
