--- On Sat, 7/9/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]

> The problem with forks is if improvements don't migrate
> upstream.

I think it's both a problem-with and a cause-of.

> Then we don't benefit from sharing the
> fixes.  Making things migrate upstream takes time in
> itself.

How does one figure out who has the responsibility to make sure things migrate 
upstream (for example: [initbang] and [closebang])?

> Try getting a patch into the Linux kernel,
> that'll make Pd seem like cake ;-)

Yes, I would hope that making changes to the core of the largest free software 
project in the history of computing is a wee bit more difficult than making 
changes to Pd.

-Jonathan

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> .hc
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> > -Jonathan
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> >> And
> >> anything assigned to Miller and reviewed
> positively by
> >> IOhannes I'm
> >> going to defer any action on until Miller
> responds.
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> >> .hc
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