On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 08:09:29PM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Georg Baum wrote: > > Ok. I think it should be done in CVS. Jürgen, should I create a branch > > (following Alfredos hints, I did it never before)? > > That'd be good (so we could work on it together). I never created a branch > myself, though.
Working with branches is a pain, frustrates people and eats into already scrace resources. I'd rather officially lift the freeze for a short while and let everybody work on his pet project in this time. This also includes XML support as this is a thing of fairly high 'public interest' which also happens to be comparatively independent of the current core problems. The idea that in freeze time everybody starts fixing bugs might be nice in theory but seemingly does not work too well in reality. And this time is not the first time. 1.2 was no better. I'd really like to have a happy, busy lyx-devel list doing fancy things _including_ fixing a bug from time to time instead of a dead list with two kinds of corpses: Those that can't fix 'deep' bugs because they just started finding their ways around in LyX source, and those that theoretically could but feel defeated from several hundred open bugs and seemingly no support from anybody else. The happy list helps the former as their contributions get a quick positive feedback and the latter are encouraged by feeling less lonesome. Andre'
