> > On Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 11:00:54 PM UTC+2, Edward K. Ream wrote:
Today is my 70th birthday. Here's how it started. Happy birthday! Best wishes! I am surprised that you are already seventy. Who would have thought! I thought you were 58 or so. I wish to offer you a small gift in the form of an idea, or an inspiration. But I'll wait for you to finish all your current pyzo integration ideas and tasks. Once you are ready to change your focus to something else, please let me know and I will describe some ideas that I believe would be worthy of your time. You have already mention on several occasions a wish for someone to be your successor in the Leo project. As a 70 years old man, it is the time to consider what is going to happen to Leo once you are gone. IMHO you would do very good to use the rest of your time to refactor and polish Leo's code base. To remove everything that can be removed rather than to add something new to it. You're the only one with necessary authority for such task. Once you are gone, the remaining developers may have some difficulties to fully agree on such refactorings. It would be much easier to deal with those refactorings, while you are still able to work on Leo. By polishing Leo's code base, and doing all these cleanings and refactorings publicly on this forum, you will pass (and make a public record of) all your insights and knowledge. That would greately increase chances for finding your successor. In the past I have already tried to persuade you to make some changes in Leo and it didn't go very well. Perhaps, I have started from the wrong end and my ideas came to you as too drastic to accept. That is why I intend to try once again, by pointing to some less drastic refactorings that hopefully we will be able to agree on. Once we make a few less drastic refactorings, and by doing them we improve Leo's code base a little and make it easier to grasp, it may turn out, that we will be able to agree on a bit larger refactorings as well. All the best to you and your familly Vitalije -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/e75997bf-147c-4a37-9b40-26dd4357fb29%40googlegroups.com.
