Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-07 Thread David Kastrup
Valentin Villenave writes: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Joe Neeman wrote: >> If the archives were public, it might deter people from speaking frankly. > > I understand; however having public archives is also something > important for the project's history. The best compromise I could come >

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-06 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Joe Neeman wrote: > If the archives were public, it might deter people from speaking frankly. I understand; however having public archives is also something important for the project's history. The best compromise I could come up with would be to make discussions p

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Joe Neeman
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Joe Neeman wrote: > > What sort of signs would you find reassuring? > > Greetings Joe, > Well, your answer is one, for starters :) > > What I meant by "reassuring signs" is pretty much any reactions from >

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Joe Neeman wrote: > What sort of signs would you find reassuring? Greetings Joe, Well, your answer is one, for starters :) What I meant by "reassuring signs" is pretty much any reactions from the development team acknowledging that there might be an issue (or some

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Joe Neeman
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Valentin Villenave wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:29 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > > David seemingly is quite incapable of bringing his meaning across, so > > instead of substituting your own, just quote him. > > Indeed. As you may have guessed, I added your name

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:29 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > David seemingly is quite incapable of bringing his meaning across, so > instead of substituting your own, just quote him. Indeed. As you may have guessed, I added your name to that sentence as an afterthought, only to make it clear that I di

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread David Kastrup
Valentin Villenave writes: > situation (and again: like David, I am not referring to the division > between people who are subscribed to -hackers and other people, but > between those who "know" about it and those who do not). David seemingly is quite incapable of bringing his meaning across, so

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/5/10 11:40 AM, "Valentin Villenave" wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > >> 2) Any description of the history may be irrelevant to the future > > Is it for us to decide? > Nope. And it's impossible for anybody to decide until it becomes an active part of th

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > I'm certain that the reason I'm not on the list is because the list is in > total disarray. It seems that we all agree on that. > I see several challenges associated with producing a more informative patch > at this time: > 1) -hackers is mo

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/5/10 9:37 AM, "Valentin Villenave" wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> As far as I know, I'm not a member of -hackers.  I get a not-found error >> whenever I click on any of the links. >> >> I don't have any emails from -hackers in my inbox or saved mails.

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > As far as I know, I'm not a member of -hackers.  I get a not-found error > whenever I click on any of the links. > > I don't have any emails from -hackers in my inbox or saved mails.  I don't > have -hackers in my Contacts list.  So I'm not pa

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/5/10 8:15 AM, "Valentin Villenave" wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> Great!  Let's move on, OK?  If Valentin wants to patch the documentation, >> then he can propose a patch.  The same applies to anyone else who wants to >> propose a patch. > I have no doubt

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen writes: > On 11/5/10 7:26 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > >> >> I repeat: do you (not necessarily "David", but "anybody") agree >> that an OSS project can, in theory, have some kind of private >> mailing list? > > I believe that private mailing lists for an OSS project are useful a

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > Great!  Let's move on, OK?  If Valentin wants to patch the documentation, > then he can propose a patch.  The same applies to anyone else who wants to > propose a patch. *I* certainly am in no place to propose a patch, since I don't know *any

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 07:36:42AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: > I don't think it's worth delaying 2.14 in order to debate either of these > questions. Can't we just note that the debate exists, perhaps add it to our > list of GLISS topics, and move on to getting 2.14 out? It's not a GLISS (synta

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/5/10 7:49 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 07:36:42AM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> I don't think it's worth delaying 2.14 in order to debate either of these >> questions. Can't we just note that the debate exists, perhaps add it to our >> list of GLISS topics, and m

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 11/5/10 7:26 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > > I repeat: do you (not necessarily "David", but "anybody") agree > that an OSS project can, in theory, have some kind of private > mailing list? I believe that private mailing lists for an OSS project are useful and that LilyPond should have them.

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:46:07PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival writes: > > > -- from my comment 3 > > Before discussing anything specific, I want to settle the abstract > > question "should an OSS project have any kind of private mailing > > list?". You have two options: >

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > -- from my comment 3 > Before discussing anything specific, I want to settle the abstract > question "should an OSS project have any kind of private mailing > list?". You have two options: > > 1) Give an argument why they should not. In particular, explain > why Ku

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 10:03:02AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > What leaves sort of a bad aftertaste here, I think, is that there is a > semi-official "inner circle" Please read my email from two months ago http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-devel@gnu.org/msg30917.html and tell me what is "semi

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-05 Thread David Kastrup
Reinhold Kainhofer writes: > And before that, in October/November 2009 there were some mails about > how to handle someone, who back then didn't really show proper > behavior. If you compare how I react to things then and now, you'll find I have not changed one bit. Any purported display of pro

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-04 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Donnerstag, 4. November 2010, um 21:56:24 schrieb Valentin Villenave: > > 2) Agree that an OSS project can, in theory, have a private > > mailing list. And apologize. > > *sigh* I do apologize if you felt offended (which you obviously do). > However, I can assure you that my goal is not to mak

Re: follow-up to report 22

2010-11-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > I spent 5 minutes trying to post my latest reply, but the forum > software continually complained that I had used wrong words, tags, > or symbols, and thus it rejected my comment as spam.  I am posting > my reply here instead. I am not sure

follow-up to report 22

2010-11-04 Thread Graham Percival
This email is a follow-up to comments in: http://news.lilynet.net/The-LilyPond-Report-22 I spent 5 minutes trying to post my latest reply, but the forum software continually complained that I had used wrong words, tags, or symbols, and thus it rejected my comment as spam. I am posting my reply he