On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:55:29PM +0300, Dov Feldstern wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > Dov Feldstern wrote: > >> So far, though, these two patches have mostly been ignored --- a few > >> people have responded, but not many. > > You're not ignored. I agree that these patches should be considered, but I > > don't understand the stuff enough to comment (and I'm too busy for > > testing). I think you should be patient and wait until José, who is the > > one who decides and also probably the one who understands the changes, > > finds time to look at it. Please accept that he is also quite busy with the > > lyx2lyx bugs currently. > > Jürgen > > Thank you to all of you who have responded. And I'm sorry for having been > impatient, I guess I'm also being a little unfair --- certainly these > patches are pretty RTL-oriented, and I don't really expect non-RTL users to > "get them". And I often (in fact, almost always) don't respond to other > people's patches, because I don't understand exactly what they're about. And > I know people are busy with other things.
The situation is asymmetric. If you feel obliged to respond to all other patches, you would be getting yourself a second daytime job ;-/ RtL is an important matter of principle. I am happy to see that at least Uwe and Juergen now and then chime in. Don't be afraid to put a little pressure on, it (LyX-RtL) is a right not a privilege! - Martin > It's just that in this case, given how close we are to a release, and given > the complexity of the patches, I'd like to have them committed as soon as > possible, just so that we have more opportunities of catching bugs before > the official release. I don't expect other developers to actively test them > that much, but I do expect them to notice if something suddenly breaks > because of them, and that's what I hope to catch before the release. Or to > put it differently: I don't need testing for what I mean the patch to do --- > I know it's doing the right thing in that sense ;) ; it's just that I want > to catch all the *unexpected* things that it's doing as well --- and the > only way to catch that is by giving them as much exposure as possible, so > the sooner it happens, the more chances we have of still fixing any problems > which may arise before the release... > > Again, thanks all of you for responding :) . > > Dov
