On 02/07/11 13:31, Dave Land wrote:
there were several reasons for this change
Generally correct. Plus the long standing issue of the strange fact
that Greasemonkey would always re-load changed source code, but not
changed metadata, when the file is (e.g.) edited. Now, any change to
the whole file is read and used, including adding a @resource or
@require (a feature that I find very useful).
I have contributed not a single line of code to
GM itself, and in the open source software world, only
committers get a vote
The tone of your message was overly adversarial, and that's not helpful.
We're all volunteers here, cheerfully giving away our time and asking
nothing in return.
Towards that end, you might note that there are 474 members of the -dev
list, while there have only been 30 committers to Greasemonkey over its
entire life (quick'n dirty count from git commit log, it might be off a
tad). You don't have to write code to participate. I try very hard to
make sure discussion happens on the -dev list, so that everyone can
weigh in.
There's also 2270 members on this (-users) list, and this change was
revealed via a preview build here, no later than November 27th, 2010
[1]. There was a little back and forth, mostly with one user that
didn't understand at first, then said "Oh wow. This is a good change."
Again, I always try to include the community, but my time is valuable,
so there's only so much I can do.
[1] http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users/msg/67f049a81103608c
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