----- Original Message ----- From: "Gianugo Rabellino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [vote] POI commiters (was: RE: [vote] Accepting donated POI serializers/generators)
> Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
>
> >>Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy about POI being part of the game,
> >>but I'd like to have a good reason for having tons of daily patches
> >>coming in, or as far as I'm concerned they will be confined to
> >>scratchpad for a long time. :-)
> >
> > IMHO think it's unfair, given the importance of the project.
> > POI is in 1.0 version, I don't think you will want it in scratchpad for
> > long, as many users will be asking continuously how to install it.
> > My 2cents, of course ;-)
>
> This (IMNSHO ;)) is perfectly fair to users. I agree and wish that many
> people will be using it, yet if the thing is going through such a
> massive bugfixing as the one you are outlining:
>
> > The fact is that bugfixes are very very frequent, 'cause we're
> > dealing with an undocumented (badly anyway) file format and
> > many M$ product versions.
>
> this makes me wonder why POI is labeled as 1.0 if there is such a huge
> amount of needed patches going on...
By "needed", what do you mean?
The fact is that real-life scenarios are so varied that there are many
"special" cases that can come up. Ever tried using M$ product versions with
differrent M$ oses? ;-)
> in second place this might lead to
> undesired countereffects, with users having to resort to CVS updates to
> get a working Cocoon+POI setup.
? This is riduculous. ;-) *Any* user that has a particular bug that gets
fixed resorts to the CVS version.
This happens with any component. What makes POI special in this regard?
> In other words: are we targeting users
> (which means stable tree + included jars) or developers/hackers?
You are jumping to conclusions.
We are targetting USERS. Who use ;-) the code and need bugfixes. The fact
that they can be frequent doesn't mean it's not stable. It can also mean
that bugs are reported more.
> If we
> go for the second than people that can use CVS can also live with a
> scratchpad component.
> Again, I don't want to be harsh
Doesn't seem ;-)
> and I want you to understand that I'm
> all in POI's side. It's just that every reply that you give worries me
> even more :)
:-)
Just don't jump to conclusion.
POI works and many users use it.
PERIOD.
Contracts are defined and will be kept.
PERIOD.
Advanced-dev portions like the DOC format stuff are going absolutely in
scratchpad.
PERIOD.
Makes sense.
Ken
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