Martin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 24.10.04:
> 23.10.04 at 23:48, Michael Heydekamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> That's just what I said. But Joachim was saying that it would have
>> been "corrected" to "Lister" again (I didn't verify if he's really
>> correct). And that's exactly what I want to avoid: Reversing earlier
>> corrections just because we put ourselves under time pressure and
>> wanna be finished at a specific date.
> It's never a good idea to quote a release date or to set a time
> schedule because the folks who have to adhere to the schedule(s) are
> merely doing everything as a hobby and "real life" will always
> interfere.
ACK. Unfortunately there seem to be some difficulties in finding a
common position in this point with the rest of the gang.
>> It may even happen that the reversion of such "corrections" may be
>> overlooked by you or me when looking through a huge resource or help
>> file. That's the danger I'm seeing.
> Yes and having re-compiled the 3.21 sources just 10 minutes ago and
> having had a very quick look around, I've already spotted a number of
> things that need correcting.
Just to avoid misunderstandings: *Although* you are saying in another
posting that MW's changes are fine, right?
It's just that a lot more changes need to be done, did I get that right?
> As discussed by you, I and Joachim a few months ago, this is a BIG job
> and one which needs a LOT of time spending on it.
Don't tell me...
> To impose a release deadline would be courting disaster IMO and
> besides, if I'm to do work on this, I'm certainly not going to rush
> it. To quote a well known saying, "It'll be ready when it's ready." ;)
Full ACK.
As we obviously share exactly the same position anyway there's no need
to ACK the rest of your post point by point. ;)
Michael
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