Re: Pythoncard fork: latest post here.

I think it's always a bit ugly to have a "hostile" forking. But my
sympathies are with Nextime here.

Managing the difference between work-in-progress vs. stable releases
*is* a problem that has been reasonably solved by the branching /
tagging mechanisms of source-control systems. There doesn't seem a
strong reason to have to manually juggle patches from different
web-sites. That appears unnecessary extra work.

I look forward to being able to install bleeding edge PythonCard /
Picard in one go; and I hope that pushing the sizers on users may
actually focus more attention and testing on them.

OTOH, I'd suggest to Nextime that he makes a tag of the pre-sizer
release so that those who are concerned can avoid it.

phil

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Nextime <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:50:30PM +0000, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>> All the other changes I made to Pythoncard followed the same, or
>> similar, process:
>> - put code (or diffs) on a website OR send them directly to fellow
>> collaborators
>> - announce to users list
>> - get feedback, update, .....
>> - once there has been enough feedback and/or enough bugs fixed, post
>> diffs to developers list
>> - incorporate any developer changes / suggestions
>> - then and only then put into cvs
>
> I don't agree with this method.
>
> In my opinion, any changes or patch shuld be committed on an
> experimental branch (or even in trunk/HEAD for little projects ),
> only this way people interested in the developement
> version can test it and provide feedback in an actively manner.
>
> When and if the changes will be considered stable enough, they will be
> included in the release branch, or tag, or stable, or what you want to call it.
>
> This is how most of the projects go ahead, and i think is the only way
> to let developers that know what they do find, test, and patch or reply
> with feedback.
>
>> That worked pretty well, until we got the sizer changes. A good number
>> of people were interested - but not sufficiently to actually test it
>> thoroughly. That kind of convinced me that there was actually less need
>> than I had thought, as confirmed by my own experience.
>
> I don't agree. It don't work pretty well if we have about 1 commit a
> year.
>
> Also, this isn't the only one issue. Also there is the problem of the
> devel ml not responsive, and i don't want to see an answer to every
> message in few minutes/hours, but i want an answer at least in 1/2 weeks
> where i ask about the status of the project. Exceptions permitted, of
> course, but Jesus, this is the usual way on pythoncard, not an
> exception.
>
>> I found that many times I used Pythoncard for a quick, simple GUI for my
>> own use without needing sizers (and if I wanted to use it
>> cross-platform, then I'd just adjust things).
>
> I agree in this. Me too. But this isn't a reason to let the project
> stalled for *TWO YEARS*!
>
>> The way I read your email, these changes were (or were going to be)
>> included in the svn trunk - so no-one can dowload Picard without getting
>> these changes included.
>
> Yes, no one can download it without those changes included. Exactly, no
> one can download the new *developement* branch without those changes
> included. When and only when i will release something that i will call
> "stable" you can argue with those things.
>
>> If that's not the case, and people can get the
>> reliable version of the layoutEditor or *choose* to get this version,
>> then that's fine. But if these changes come included by downloading
>> Picard, then I think it would be worth a specific warning about this
>> part of the code (though you could argue this email thread should be
>> enough of a disclaimer).
>
>
> People that download a trunk developement branch from an svn usually
> know what they do. People that don't know what to do, usually don't know
> how to use an svn repository nor how to install something that isn't an
> exe or msi installer.
>
> Anyway, after all, i've done my choice. I now have a fork with the
> things i want to have, i will have a new project that will evolve more
> quickly, probably in different direction of pythoncard. Anyone is free
> to follow me or to stay here... to wait something moving.
>
>
>> Good luck
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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