On 27 September 2010 09:04, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > A feature request without patch is just wishful thinking.
I know that! Hence the reason I have contributing many patches before. I know the whole "that is the way open source software works" story. Unfortunately that ideal world doesn't always work either - patches can be supplied with a feature request, but that is NO guarantee that they will be accepted into the Lazarus project. My last two patches are a case in point (a bug report + patch). So far they are just collecting dust in Mantis (one goes as far back as April). Mantis is full of patches waiting to be applied. > Might I ask what prevented you from sending a patch? Time, and the fact that it will touch quite a few deep knowledge features of the IDE. With experience I have noticed that such patches are really accepted (outside the ring of the core developers of course). > All added features are top priority. Maybe not your top priority, but > surely the top priority of someone else who coded (or funded) the > implementation. Well, Mantis currently has many patches just sitting there... so that doesn't seem very high priority to me. Also marking a feature or patch as target 1.0, 1.2 or post 1.2 is pretty much a slap in the face. Considering Lazarus has been around for 10 years (I think), and still is no closer to a "stable" or 1.0 release. So a post 1.2 target will obviously not happen in my lifetime. > course I would be extremely happy if people start sending patches > which are in line with Mattias's plans for this feature and which > accelerate the completion time. Well, there is no roadmap for Lazarus, so I can only take a wild guess at what Mattias's plans are. Without publishing clear goals/targets/plans for what Lazarus wants to achieve for every release - we (outside the core developer ring) are stuck in the dark. This makes it rather hard to contribute towards a release goal too, don't you think. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net:8080/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
