On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:40:04 +0100, Thomas wrote:
On 18.11.2010 00:31, Enrico Tröger wrote:
I do agree. It was not to hide the discussion or anything. I was just making some changes to the plugins' build system or tested something or whatever and stumpled upon the error. So I made the little patch, sent it to Frank and added a note that even after compiling the plugin wouldn't work correctly because of the compiled-in Geany version.
Honestly, I assumed Frank would just apply the patch, would have answered: yes, I'll fix it and voila. At this point I didn't know and expect the current lengthy discussion on the list.
Mea culpa.
I think it's OK if it happens once in a while; often you just don't think about it when you're discussing and sometimes the topic appears to be not important enough.
This is how it goes. Nick, Frank and me doesn't coomunicate that much in private, at least not about Geany :). The remaining things most often should kept private, haha.
But it's not the first time I notice that there's been quite some talk behind the themes. I feel it happens a lot (e.g. you never see discussions when it comes to upgrading the integrated scintilla copy, but yet it happens), and that makes me feel the development process is
Er, no. Not really as far as I remember. I think to remember that I wrote once in a while Nick a mail like 'any objections in updating Scintilla', he answered no and I did. Something like this, not really intensive discussions. What we did also in private sometimes was talking about releases, i.e. when to release what everyone has still to do and time to make the release. We could have done this on the list but I think the benefit would have been small. This was really more organisational.
(in fact, all FOSS projects do) benefits from involving the community as much as possible.
And that is how it should be and should stay. I can speak only for myself: I didn't want to exclude the community in any decisions at any point. There are just a few, little and not so important things which don't need a 200 mails thread on the list. Again, when this happened, this was nothing critical to Geany.
I'm sorry to hear you got the feeling there is anything happening behind the scenes.
Regards, Enrico