On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 at 20:41:40 +0100, "Rodolfo García Peñas (kix)" wrote: > Hi, > > You are doing a very good job with window maker. Testing patches, trying > new things and of course, the git management. Is a hard work and you are > always ready to do it. I only can say, thanks a lot. > > However, I cannot understand your logic about don't include some patches > and the way to do it. Yesterday, some developers said that they agree > with the patches about WINGs theming, but you didn't include the > patches. You didn't explain why, you have your own idea about it (not > include them) and for you the topic is closed.
It's been only a day or two since the patch and I'm still thinking and hoping to read more convincing arguments. It would help if the patch included an entry in the NEWS file to teach people about it (including the color syntax). Otherwise I think only a handful of people will be aware of it (nevermind use it). I don't like the patch because it smells like "let's do it simply because we can, because it is cool to be able to change how the widgets look after all these years". I understand the reasons why someone thinks it is cool, but that is not a strong argument to include features (just think about what would happen otherwise). It is just me being conservative and trying to tell people what I think comes close to the edge of acceptance. > We have other similar cases, like for example patches about window maker > replaces other window managers and others replace window maker [1]. > > I feel uncomfortable with these situations. This is not too fair because it is biased, only the non-accepted patches are remembered and quoted. And in this particular case you mention I said the patch would be accepted if it was not compiled by default. I try to be reasonable in my decisions, but I prefer to err on the conservative rather than the "accept all patches" side. > I think more people could upload changes to the git, the git upload > could be done using votes, more people review the patches,... be more > open. > > I don't want start a war. I don't want create a wmaker forks here and > there and I cannot offer anything. But I like the democratic projects. > > Regards, > kix. > > [1] http://lists.windowmaker.org/dev/msg05199.html > -- > ||// //\\// Rodolfo "kix" Garcia > ||\\// //\\ http://www.kix.es/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
