On 30/07/17 20:09, marcel-hollerb...@t-online.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hey andy: just tested it, works here, there is just a strange resize
> issue with a popup which is completly collapsed in the middle of my
> screen, but nothing locks up...
> 
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 12:36:38AM +0100, Al Poole wrote:
>> I feel strongly that the new gadget system and the bryce should be in it
>> own branch definitely not in master because it's changing a lot and it's
>> often broken.
> 
> I have to say: "no".
> 
> First of all, take a look how much bryce itself changed over the time,
> the last api change of bryce was on Mar 8 (take a look at git log!). So
> saying it is changing a lot is not true. Modules are changing, things are
> added & there are bug fixes, but huge changes to bryce itself are not
> happening.
> 
> Also, lets think a second about what would happen if bryce would be in a
> branch:
> - Fewer people would test it, as said in some other ML thread last week,
>   people only test if its easy to build, noone does a test of the
>   "bryce" branch just because you asks him to test it.
> - Development is quite harder if you are testing now, where should you
>   submit a bugfix that is due to bryce but not in bryce code? master /
>   bryce-branch?
> - How would you organize rebases the bryce-branch to the latested master?
>   It doesnt matter what you do you end up either with the user rebaseing
>   the branch himself, which sucks, since he would have to resolve merge
>   conflicts he doesnt know, or you are annoying the others developing on
>   bryce stuff since you are rebasing stuff and they cannot just simply
>   do a git pull and be up to date
> - [... This list can be continued]
> 
> So all in all, it does not make any sense to keep it in a branch. I use
> it daily and never encountered a real break where i had to stop using
> bryce, and even if i find some bug in it, it usally takes max. 7 days
> for mike /okra to fix it.
> 
> Greetings
>    bu5hm4n
> 

I agree, its easy to not use atm, in e21 it was deliberately hidden, its
now less hidden because buy e22 it should be useable enough to be the
default as such master is currently the best spot for it.

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