Hi, > Since I'm on this list (less than a year) I regularly observed > lots of resistance with respect to any changes of workflow. This > can be either due to bad suggestions for improvement, or due to > the emerge of an overly conservative development culture. I'm > fine with the first option, but I fear the latter (not only > PETSc-related). > > > One more comment on an "overly conservative development culture". It is > easy to see pushback on changes as > unwarranted caution, whereas the other side sees it as preservation of > desirable attributes. I think it would be just > as easy to interpret the present changes as overly proscriptive, which > are of course seen as improvements by the > proposers.
I think we all know that there will - as you pointed out - always be two sides of a medal. I'll silence myself with this philosophically-yet-useless remark now and wait for Matt's data point :-) Best regards, Karli
