On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:06 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >> as always, patches will be thoughtfully considered. > > It appears a bit disingenuous to me to answer "I can't figure out what > does what and why" with "congratulations, then it is your task to figure > this out to a degree where you can not merely use it, but rather > redesign and change it". > > I am aware that this is the most common form of brush-off employed in > Open Source projects. I am maintaining projects myself, and have > limited amounts of time for the maintenance. And that means that some > things just don't get done. But I try not blaming my users for that. > And "patches will be thoughtfully considered" is pretty close to "first > try doing all the work, and if you are lucky, we won't just chuck it > into the bin without comment". > > It might just be a case of unfortunate phrasing, but I can't feel it to > be the most effective way to stoke enthusiasm.
This is not meant as an explicit putdown; it is simply the reality. I have no time to do any sort of coding, really, so if you want things to happen, it is up to you. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
