Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2015 22:53:48 UTC+1 schrieb Christian Brabandt: > Hi Tim! > > On So, 18 Jan 2015, Tim Lebedkov wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2015 14:36:52 UTC+1 schrieb Bram Moolenaar: > > > Tim Lebedkov wrote: > > > > > > > my patch "Switch the NSIS installer to MUI2" > > > > (https://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/detail?id=279) was not merged in > > > > 2 months. This is clearly too slow for 20 lines of changes. > > > > > > > > Were there any discussions about how this could be improved? > > > > > > > > A solution to this problem could be for Bram to delegate some work to > > > > other developers. There could be "lieutenants" responsible for > > > > different parts of the source code of different operating systems. > > > > These "lieutenants" could check the incoming patches and forward them > > > > to Bram so that he could merge faster and without any fears. > > > > > > Right, for a patch like this, which requires trying it out on a few > > > different Windows machines, it would be very helpful to get feedback. > > > > > > There have been other changes to the Windows installer, which might make > > > it work better. However, this kind of change can fail in 1 out of 100 > > > installations, especially on old PCs. Thus I'm careful not to change > > > too much. > > > > > > Perhaps changing the installer could be an item for Vim 7.5. Since > > > there are so many patches for 7.4 now. > > > > So you are actually saying that this patch may be applied some time in 2016 > > (and may be not). With this rate I will not be able to change 1000 lines of > > code during the rest of my life. I hope, you understand that I cannot > > accept this. > > > > What is your opinion about changing the development model? Should it be > > changed or do you think that everything is OK? > > For a beginning, you could maintain a separate installer so that people > can actually try that it works and you get feedback. Then you can also > gradually change further things, if this is required.
I did, but everything I hear is that the changes will be merged maybe in 2016 (and maybe not). What is your opinion as an active Vim developer? Are you OK with current state of the development model or do you think it should be changed (for example to be more like the Linux one)? > > BTW: What kind of 1000 lines code change you are talking about? If my changes will be merged with speed of 20 lines every 2 years, it would take 100 years to merge 1000 lines. -- > > Best, > Christian > -- > Was jeder Tag will, sollst du fragen, was jeder Tag will, wird er > sagen. > -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
