Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Dov Feldstern wrote:
So far, though, these two patches have mostly been ignored --- a few
people have responded, but not many.
You're not ignored. I agree that these patches should be considered, but I
don't understand the stuff enough to comment (and I'm too busy for testing).
I think you should be patient and wait until José, who is the one who decides
and also probably the one who understands the changes, finds time to look at
it. Please accept that he is also quite busy with the lyx2lyx bugs currently.
Jürgen
Thank you to all of you who have responded. And I'm sorry for having
been impatient, I guess I'm also being a little unfair --- certainly
these patches are pretty RTL-oriented, and I don't really expect non-RTL
users to "get them". And I often (in fact, almost always) don't respond
to other people's patches, because I don't understand exactly what
they're about. And I know people are busy with other things.
It's just that in this case, given how close we are to a release, and
given the complexity of the patches, I'd like to have them committed as
soon as possible, just so that we have more opportunities of catching
bugs before the official release. I don't expect other developers to
actively test them that much, but I do expect them to notice if
something suddenly breaks because of them, and that's what I hope to
catch before the release. Or to put it differently: I don't need testing
for what I mean the patch to do --- I know it's doing the right thing in
that sense ;) ; it's just that I want to catch all the *unexpected*
things that it's doing as well --- and the only way to catch that is by
giving them as much exposure as possible, so the sooner it happens, the
more chances we have of still fixing any problems which may arise before
the release...
Again, thanks all of you for responding :) .
Dov
