On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 20:49 +0100, Jon Davies wrote: > > > The patches dinkypumpkin has been doing will almost certainly be > considered stable at some point, but you may have noticed that there > have been lots of versions of several patches by several people, many > of which worked, but one or two didn't. So it's not useful to roll > out an update immediately that a patch is written, it's worth letting > some intrepid users test it first.
Yeah, I've been watching and waiting, and hoping that someone would send me a summary (or basically just a git pull request). Once the dust settles, I should probably do a 2.80 release. > Part of the problem arises from the fact that this is both a user and > a developer mailing list. On some projects these are separate mailing > lists, and developers can throw around patches and fixes for patches > on a developer list, and offer user-centred advice on a user list. > That's not how things work here (there are pros and cons either way), > so it can appear messy and confusing sometimes. There's also a significant cross-over between the two. The users report a problem, someone throws together a patch which might fix it, and the users test it. Is that a developer, or a user conversation? And what if there's a "user" who wants some fix or feature and hacks it together themself and posts a patch... either something which can be applied directly, or just enough of a patch to provoke someone more clueful into doing the job properly? Given the small amount of traffic on this list, I don't think it's really necessary to split into -devel and -users at this point. I'd rather have everyone on the list *together*. If anyone feels strongly that this is the wrong decision, perhaps we could set up a new list, but I don't really see the point at the moment. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
