Georg Baum wrote:
Am Samstag, 21. Oktober 2006 18:01 schrieb Asger Ottar Alstrup:
Georg Baum wrote:
** NO NEW FEATURES ARE ALLOWED FROM RIGHT NOW **
I do not agree with this one if it means all new features, not just
those
that require changes to the core.
The sooner we fix the basic things, the sooner we can introduce new and
small features. The fact is that right now, things are not improving.
Maybe basic features working last weekend, but they don't know. We HAVE
to react to that.
Sure. Note that I do partially agree with the freeze.
I partially do not agree, and I feel betrayed: A long time everything
is
allowed, and then from one day to the other we are in a freeze. Basic
functionality like latex encodings that has been working in previous
releases is not allowed to come back, but new features like multiple
windows are allowed to be finished.
We are not trying to be unfair, or unreasonable.
But you are. If drastic measures are needed, then I expect that the first
thing that is forbidden is new stuff that touches the core. And multiple
views (although I agree it is nice to have) is such stuff.
That is plain wrong, adjusting this feature will touch very minimally
the core. All the hard work to make this happen is already done.
We just have to draw a
line somewhere, because we feel that something has to change compared to
how things are going now. The sooner people use their energy on fixing
things, the sooner new features can come in again.
If you look what I did during the last months you will see that most of it
was bug fixing. Now I know that this was wrong and I should have done some
other stuff instead.
And I've done that also: I have sanitized a number of things: the
BufferView, the metrics etc. Multiple-View is just a nice side effect.
Code cleaning _is_ bug fixing. Staying with complicated code is the very
reason for hidden and unfixable bugs.
You are really unfair to me Georg.
Abdel.
Abdel.
