On 16/07/09 13:41, Efraim Yawitz wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Tony Mechelynck > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Anyway, I don't believe that in this particular venue you'll find many > people to defend the Cathedral model against the Bazaar model. > > > Although, interestingly enough, vim itself is basically all coded by one > person who is definitely 'in charge'
You could say the same of the Linux kernel. The difference is not who decides what goes into the official releases but who can participate, find bugs, propose coding improvements, etc. Even saying that Bram is basically the only person coding Vim is nowadays an exaggeration. Just see how many official patches ultimately come from code changes proposed by Dominique Pellé, Xavier de Gaye, and others; I think all RTL modules (Hebrew, Arabic, and the Farsi module which is being obsoleted by a new rewrite of Arabic) are due to other peoples than Bram; and what concerns the runtime files (without which Vim wouldn't be as useful as it is, and by far) it's even more obvious. Bram did write a goodly number of them, to be sure, but just look at the "Maintainer" line and see how many have other people "in charge" of them. From the top of my head, I can say for instance that the netrw plugin and the Vim script syntax are due to Dr. Chip Campbell, the matchit plugin to Benji Fisher, and then there are all those which I don't remember without looking. Best regards, Tony. -- Heuristics are bug ridden by definition. If they didn't have bugs, then they'd be algorithms. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
