On Feb 7, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Anthony Lieuallen wrote:
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).
Thank you: This sounds like the strongest argument for the change.
Sorry I didn't acknowledge it before.
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.
Similarly, I found your responses to be overly defensive, hence
equally unhelpful. Maybe we can just lay that to rest? I've tried to
express my appreciation in every message in this thread, though
apparently without benefit.
If I come across as adversarial, I am a "no compromises" user
experience guy. I side with end-users to the perpetual annoyance of
developers whose job I make harder in the process :-). Having worked
at Apple in the '90s, perhaps I too strongly embraced the company's
"no compromises" mentality of those days.
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.
I recently joined the -dev list, will try to contribute there, as
kindly as possible. I hope my opinions won't always be viewed as
overly adversarial.
Dave
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