Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Well, Georg, on the other hand, please realize that Uwe is currently > the only person actively working on tex2lyx, and he really tries hard > to get things on par. Not everyone has the same coding skills (I > certainly count myself to the lower rank of the scale), and this can > be frustrating for others. But we should be glad that people do care > for the rather neglected and uncool parts of the code. Uwe is putting > much effort in many of these areas (tex2lyx, installer, > documentation), and I do not think he deserves this kind of bashing.
I definitely appreciate his work. I also did not complain about coding skills. I have lerned myself a lot from LyX developers, and if somebody has questions how to handle a particular problem he always gets help. In fact, this is something that works extremely well in LyX (as compared to some other projects). However, this needs some prerequisites: Developers need to ask for comments if they are unsure, or if they do controversal changes. As an example, I still have a pending patch for the footmisc package. You and Jean-Marc raised concerns, and therefore it is not yet in (although it would technically work). This is perfectly OK with me: The discussion uncovered some issues I was not aware of, so I need to find a better solution. Uwe, please try hard in the future to work in a similar way: Ask for comments before committing for all changes that are either complicated or that might be controversal. Of course this slows the initial development down, but IMO this is no problem at all. If you sum up over all developers it will cost less time than committing first and discussing afterwards. It will also make it less likely that broken changes go into the stable branch I wrote the message cited by Jürgen when I was really frustrated: I got a lot of trac emails, started to investigate, others did so as well and finally discovered the problems, and my work was wasted. To me it looked like the problematic changes went in quickly without testing. As we understand now this was caused by an unlucky combination of reasons, so it hopefully does not happen again, and I hope that all is OK now. Georg
