Am Samstag, den 19.03.2011, 00:33 -0800 schrieb John Gilmore: > Please stop removing things from gnash, and restore the ones that have > been removed. There is no consensus to remove these things, even if > they don't currently work. Doing it in the absence of consensus just > creates unnecessary friction among the few remaining developers.
I am trying to get consensus to remove these things, and where there is consensus I'll continue to remove them. > When a volunteer comes along who wants to revive that corner of the > project, it will be much harder for them to do so if they have to root > around in ancient releases just to find a copy of the formerly-working > code base. We have a modern version control system. I also give higher priority to the requirements of at least one of the remaining active developers, who would like to work on features without being slowed down by the sheer amount of unmaintained and indisputably unused code. Finally, at least some of the code I removed recently is not formerly-working, as I detailed in earlier mails. bwy -- -- Free Flash, use Gnash http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ Benjamin Wolsey, Software Developer - http://benjaminwolsey.de C++ and Open-Source Flash blog - http://www.benjaminwolsey.de/bwysblog xmpp:[email protected] http://identi.ca/bwy
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