On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Alexander Klenin wrote:
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 08:48, Michael Van Canneyt
<mich...@freepascal.org> wrote:
There is, again, a continuum between careful development and stangation.
While acknowledging great work that FPC team has done on the former,
I'd venture to say that is came uncomfortably close to the latter.
I'd venture to disagree.
Attached is a small graph from the bugtracker activity.
As you can see, the bugfix rate remains constant, which refutes
'stagnation'. We do work, even if it is not so 'visible'.
As I said, I did not ever deny you work, of course you do.
Still, "steady bugfixing" and "dymanic evolution" are not quite the same,
although related.
Now, to counter the perception of stagnation, you can help:
Please help us working on fppkg
Looking at the bugtracker, I found a single non-assigned issue #18321,
which talks about some "webdesign" package I know nothing about.
So I where can I look at the todo-list?
Slowly, we (mainly Joost, in fact) are converting the FPC packages to this
new mechanism, fixing bugs as we go along. You can help by testing this, and
converting more packages to the new fppkg.
Perhaps I can take care of a single package -- for example, numlib improvement
was discussed recently on the forum. However, I am afraid my work will
be rejected again as was the case with fpdoc.
Basing an opinion on 1 occurrence - however painful - is not very scientific :-)
The amount of patches being rejected is a small minority. But yes, it sometimes
happens.
So I'd consider working on numlib (+ math unit, which is obviously
closely related),
if I'd get either commit access or somebody who will timely commit my patches.
You should contact Marco Van De Voort, he currently looks after numlib.
Michael.
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