Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-14 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: David, I realize that you are angry, but please stop using words like monkey I'm responsible for monkey. You asked to stop using it, but i continued to do so (not because of malice - i just didn't find good

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-14 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:23:57PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk a) a release-meister with responsibility to take all decisions. That's what Han-Wen used to do, I believe.

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-14 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca wrote: David, I realize that you are angry, but please stop using words like monkey I'm responsible for monkey. You asked to stop using it, but i continued to do so

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, i said that i'll post an answer to this thread, so here it is :) David and Graham are clearly speaking from two different points of view. Or, to be (hopefully) more accurate, they are on two orthogonal planes. David is an experienced developer. He can judge LilyPond code better than many

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: i said that i'll post an answer to this thread, so here it is :) David and Graham are clearly speaking from two different points of view. Or, to be (hopefully) more accurate, they are on two orthogonal planes. David is an experienced

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:27 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Graham's focus is on transparent /rules/ that are easy to follow, and preferably won't lay *too* much responsibility on Release Manager's shoulders. To be exact: none. And,

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:27 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Graham's focus is on transparent /rules/ that are easy to follow, and preferably won't lay *too* much responsibility on Release

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread Trevor Daniels
David Kastrup wrote Friday, July 13, 2012 4:27 PM Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: This is important, too, because Graham won't always be the Project Manager. It's also not guaranteed that there'll always be an experienced developer with sufficient time to handle release

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk To: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org; Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com Cc: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 6:08 PM Subject: Re: clear policy discussions a) a release-meister with responsibility to take

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread David Kastrup
Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk writes: David Kastrup wrote Friday, July 13, 2012 4:27 PM Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: This is important, too, because Graham won't always be the Project Manager. It's also not guaranteed that there'll always be an experienced

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread David Kastrup
Phil Holmes m...@philholmes.net writes: - Original Message - From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk To: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org; Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com Cc: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 6:08 PM Subject: Re: clear policy discussions

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:43 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: Obviously, Graham would like to dumb down the rules as much as possible indeed (as long as he is the Release Manager it means less work for him). But he didn't say that the rules

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread David Kastrup
Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:43 PM, David Kastrup d...@gnu.org wrote: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: In particular since it would make those others feel like they count, do something for the success of the project, and are part of a

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:23:57PM +0100, Phil Holmes wrote: - Original Message - From: Trevor Daniels t.dani...@treda.co.uk a) a release-meister with responsibility to take all decisions. That's what Han-Wen used to do, I believe. It worked quite well, although Graham will have

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-13 Thread Graham Percival
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 05:27:57PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Janek Warchoł janek.lilyp...@gmail.com writes: And, above all, won't require the Release Manager to be an expert programmer. Or communicator. Or look at recent issue reports more thoroughly than counting Critical labels to

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-11 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:51:11PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: I'll only address meta-discussion points here. What about the next one? Phil has been learning how to do it, and I certainly

clear policy discussions (was: Issue 2648 in lilypond: Repeat Dots and Staff Size in 2.15.41)

2012-07-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:21:38PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: I mean, we have too few categories for regressions. I can see the following: -snip- My personal opinion is that My personal opinion is that we should not discuss major policy changes in the middle of a thread about dots and staff

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 01:21:38PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: I mean, we have too few categories for regressions. I can see the following: -snip- My personal opinion is that My personal opinion is that we should not discuss major policy

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:06:10PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: My personal opinion is that we should not discuss major policy changes in the middle of a thread about dots and staff sizes. It was in the course of changing the status to

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-10 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:06:10PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: My personal opinion is that we should not discuss major policy changes in the middle of a thread about dots and staff sizes.

Re: clear policy discussions

2012-07-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:51:11PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Graham Percival gra...@percival-music.ca writes: I'll only address meta-discussion points here. What about the next one? Phil has been learning how to do it, and I certainly won't call *him* a trained monkey... but his