hi; On 13 September 2013 03:10, Matthew Brush <mbr...@codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>> As some of you may have noticed we have recently deprecated Stock Items in >> master. >> >> Some details on this change may be found here: >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KCVPoYQBqMbDP11tHPpjW6uaEHrvLUmcDPqKAppCY8o/pub >> >> Please let us know what you think. >> > > Do you mind if I simply ask why are you asking for feeback? can't really talk for Jon, but I think it's obvious why: you can only get feedback once you do something, and find issues when people start porting their code, not before. as a rule, people don't port their code until it's strictly necessary, so doing thought experiments and getting feedback prior to actually deprecating API yields either skewed, or no results. luckily, we have GTK under revision control, so if we need to do so, we can revert commits — which is something that happened multiple times in the past (even in this cycle). it's also obvious that somebody's mind "has been made": that's how things get started, developed, and committed. it doesn't mean that opinions can't change, though; it's still possible to convince to revert, or to defer to a later cycle. we can even "undeprecate" in another cycle. it helps if you don't automatically assume that people working on GTK are stubborn or simply don't care. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
