On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, DRC wrote:
Let's run down the list, shall we? Apart from having to fight you on
performance issues (above), here are the other things I can think of off
the top of my head that I've gotten push-back on:
-- Automatic lossless refresh
-- Multi-threaded encoding and decoding
-- Auth extensions (more specifically, a global authentication
configuration file)
-- The rfbTightNoZlib extension
-- Fixing the double buffering in the TigerVNC viewer (TigerVNC will
sometimes interrupt a redraw, which produces tearing artifacts on slower
connections.)
(for the last two, I submitted a patch that should have been a no-brainer.)
We are positive to most things on that list. The problems has to do with
development style and cooperation. The rfbTightNoZlib patch is a good
example of this. The thread is available here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.vnc.tigervnc.devel/2451 . If I would
summarize it, it goes like this:
We: "How does this work?", "This could be done in a nicer way", "Have you
thought of this?"
You: "this extension has been in use for 5 years quite successfully in
TurboVNC, so it definitely works correctly."
We are more used to a "Linux Kernel" community, were you might need to
explain the code, tweak it, and submit it again. We didn't reject the idea
of rfbTightNoZlib; we asked you to remind us later. We want to understand
patches, and make sure they are close to perfect before commit. This is
QA. Thus, we do not like the concept of blindly comitting patches from
another source, even if that code has been used by a Fortune 500 company.
Rgds,
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