On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Rodrigo Del C. Andrade
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello, folks.
>
> I apologize for intruding in something that is above my paygrade, but for
> whatever it's worth I will drop my .2c as a user just in case:
>
> I spent the last weak extending the JDBC service to have an alternative that
> uses our own databases structure and pass encoding hash algorithms (btw,
> thanks for the guidance, it works like a dream! :) ) and the problems
> Christian described with the JDBC extension are, if not a complete deal
> breaker, frustrating to someone who is not aware of the inner workings of
> security subsystem. An average user would have a bad time if he screws up
> the configuration the first time.
>
> Were not for the root password I would probably have flipped tables  way
> more often than what I am known for and many times I had to manually edit
> the config.xml files because of some inconsistency or other odd things in
> the services I was creating.

Rodrigo, what we're discussing here is not the opportunity of committing the
patches at all, it's obvious that they must go in,
but the opportuntity commit them now instead of a 4-6 weeks time,
for a feature that's new and whose you're a early adopter of.

It is astonishing that someone cannot wait one month for a large amount
of changes to land where other contributors had to wait over four months
so far to get a release (half of the PSC was ready to release in
February, mind),
and had to pay consequences because of that.

Working in a community is also about balancing the needs of all the
contributors,
focusing on one particular need and forgetting all the other work that was done
is offensive for the peole that carried it on and makes it harder to justify
contributing as a company, or find reasons to spend a Sunday trying to
help out instead of having fun or relax.
This of course works both ways, I'm sure Christian is pretty frustrated and
wondering why he put all the effort and now he can't close it up for the 2.2.0
release, at the same time the people that wanted to release in February
have been frustrated for 4 months now and with the continous pushes
to delay the release to get in this or that it's really getting beyond
ridicolous.

Cheers
Andrea

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