From: "Tim Wunder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:31 am, someone claiming to be Derek Atkins wrote: > <snip> > > Are you willing to donate time and code to help fix it? If not, then
I'm really new here - can't even get the CVS yet, though I've got the latest FTP source - and I understand Tim's concern that this is a heck of a combination of code, but I'm certainly willing to give it at try. > Agreed (mostly), but a broken feature shouldn't be touted as a feature. At > least warn the poor unsuspecting user that the feature is not finished. And I agree that something that doesn't work shouldn't be touted as a new feature. > > > Based on user experience so far, SXes have clearly _never_ worked > > right. But that alone does not warrant holding back a release. SXes > > are an extraneous feature, and we can easily tell users "don't use > > them yet." There were enough another other fixes completed to warrant Hardly "extraneous". That implies And I agree that something that doesn't work shouldn't be touted as a new feature. However, it's a > > a 1.8.2. Hopefully the SX code can be fixed for 1.8.3, but that > > depends on getting code. The SX author is busy with real life (as are > > ALL of us), and frankly I don't blame him for not being very active in > > Gnucash -- it doesn't pay his salary. Waiting would have meant waiting > > indefinitely, and that's NOT ok. > > > > Agreed again. So why do we list Scheduled Transactions as a new feature in > 1.8.x when they're clearly borken (regardless of the validity of the reason > for their borken-ness)? > > > Open Source is not perfect. The reason it's better than closed-source > > is NOT because it's free. The reason it's better is because it can > > leverage the help of hundreds of developers, each working on small > > improvements. Well, I'm sorry, put up or shut up. Either provide > > some code, be one of those people making gnucash better, or stop > > complaining. > > > > -derek, who's had a very bad day, and it's not even noon yet > > > > Relax... > > Tim > <snip> > > -- > RedHat Psyche 8.0, stock kernel, KDE 3.1.CVS, Xfree86 4.2.1 > 6:30pm up 3 days, 1:47, 1 user, load average: 1.42, 1.15, 0.78 > It's what you learn after you know it all that counts > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
