On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:58:09 -0700 Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:
more than two weeks have passed without any response and I fear it will end the same way as many times before [...]
Not an exception, the X session management is 9 months old too. Perhaps we should create a geany-patches project or something?..
It seems to me that the whole problem could be (dis)solved using (for example) GitHub since you can just fork the main repository, hack hack hack, and send a pull request/patch, [...]
It won't work automagically. When unreviewed for some time, which is the current situation, the patches become obsolete. For example, the recent utils_build_path() broke the xsm once when introduced, and a second time when the returned string became non-static.
[...] so people wanting these features before the developers get time to review them, can see all of these requests in the queue and know they are coming or are available through the forked repositories.
Git will be some improvement, indeed, but I'm a bit afraid of repeating the NEdit situation: instead of busying themselfs with the long patches, the devs simply tell everyone "all extras are there, take whatever you want at your own risk". I know how this ends.