Scott O'Bryan wrote:
>>
>> E.g., I'm active in TeX development since 1982. Without our user
>> communities, our mailing lists and newsgroups, our fora, where
>> user-level questions are answered, we developers couldn't make it.
>> IMHO, both aspects of community are needed. Or do you think that
>> the postings here with user questions are not answered because
>> they're too difficult?
> I fully agree with this Joachim. Thing is, there are some
> questions that get answered and some that don't. Targeted and
> informed questions where the user has done their research and has
> discovered an issue typically get a response. Ones where people say
> "My app is broken, here it is, fix it" don't.
The latter is clear, no OSS project is going to do that. For
specific problems, creation of a minimal example is a demand that's
mandatory if one wants to keep sane.
>>> If there is some
>>> functionality you'd like to see in Trinidad, please open up a
>>> discussion on the dev list about it. We'd like to hear from you.
>> Hmm, my 1st wish would be simple:
>> Package the SVN-tagged 1.2.15 release. :-)
> HAHA. ;) I get ya! Like I say, 1.2 has not been my priority and
> unless you're looking at taking it over, I think it will be the
> last 1.2..
Since I sit here at 1:40 am, working on the next TeX Live release
and on our new CTAN Web site, I'm afraid I'll have problems to pack
even part-time responsibility for another open source project in my
schedule. More than two hours a day on a regular base for personal
OSS projects is not possible. :-)
> I do have a question for you since you seem to be wanting it
> released... It's one that I have not got an answer for. Do you
> think that 1.2.15 should have the few outstanding bugs commited to
> the already tagged release or would you like to see the code from
> the experimental branches merged in as well.
The few outstanding bugs are sufficient, IMO.
Integration of experimental branches can/shall be done by someone else.
Probably a (semi-official?) declaration that 1.x is closed as long
as no new maintainer is forthcoming, but work on 2.x continues,
would be helpful, too. I know several commercial environments,
where such EOL announcements are business cases to budget
transformation projects.
Thanks for taking the patience to answer my emails.
Joachim
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