Re: PATCH: Bug 186

Andrew Kohlsmith <[email protected]> writes:
> From my perspective XWT needs *A* widget library and *A* working widget demo.  
> Not what we have now, what Charlie and Rod have been doing, and now what you 
> and Adam would like to move to, all at various stages of completeness.

Ladies and gentlemen, the gauntlet has been thrown down.... let the race begin ;)


> I personally don't want to move Rod away from the work he's done to
> just back track and change the directory layout (and fix whatever
> bugs get introduced in the process).

IMHO the directory reorg shouldn't introduce too many extra bugs.
Especially if everything has been abstracted and isolated properly.


> Rod and I would not be available (GMT-5:00), but using cvs.xwt.org brings up 
> another issue -- having to wait for confirmation from you or Adam before 
> checking in.

This is ONLY for the core repo.  The web repository is commit-at-will.

Originally, when David was doing 90% of the work on the widgets, it
made sense to put him 100% in charge of the widgets repository.  Now
that others are putting a lot of effort into this, that arrangement is
not the best.

I'm actually perversely pleased to see that the widgets repository has
been forked.  Free Software has Worked here.  There was a political
mismatch between the organizational structure of the project and the
amount of effort people were contributing.  This manifested itself as
a fork.

Now, however, we would all be best off if we corrected this
misalignment and remerged the fork.  We can get more done if we work
together.  The whole egcs/gcc3 remerge is a really neat story if you'd
like to see how another project dealt with a similar situation.


> I think I can get all the changes in the current widget audit into a
> new model (which as Charlie mentioned, it not really that different)
> in one day.

This sounds like a good approach.  I will post a proposed plan of
action shortly for us to discuss.

  - a

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