On Monday, January 23, 2012 11:57:10 PM Jeff Epler did opine: > Michael, > > I would like to address your concerns over the quality of the rebranding > changes and the degree of consideration that they were given before they > were made. I can speak only for myself here, and I have my "linuxcnc > developer" hat on as I write this.. > > I don't have any trouble admitting that some of the changes I've pushed > to v2.5_branch since the announcement may have been hasty and may > require fine-tuning, if not outright reversion. Personally, I felt like > a huge burden had been lifted from me by the announcement; now I could > finally *do something* about this problem that has been hanging over our > project for months. > > On the other hand, I still think the approach of starting by renaming > stuff and then fixing what broke was the right one. If I had waited to > push the changes until they were perfect, collaborating with my fellow > developers would have been more difficult. > > Also in retrospect, a rebranding branch would have been a good idea > (allowing collaboration while not leaving v2.5_branch unstable for days > and days) but that, too, is water under the bridge. Starting a branch > now will not benefit anyone, since v2.5_branch would be just as broken > as it is now until the rebranding branch was merged. (and reverting the > v2.5_branch to before the rebranding seems a very severe choice, because > many people have already pulled these commits) > > The v2.5_branch is actually in pretty good shape now, AFAIK. Where it's > not, let's talk about and address the specific technical issues. > > I hope that you will continue in supporting and contributing to our > project. > > Jeff
Jeff: I apparently put the wrong branch in my synaptic repo file, because I have now pulled two updates wearing a 2.6.0-some-githash version. AFAIK, they are working 'nominally'. IOW, it doesn't look as bad as you are saying from this end of the pipe. So ATM I am fairly happy. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> "The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain." -- G. Fitch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
