From: <dpe...@si...> - 2003-12-05 21:13:05
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On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Alex Roitman had this to say: Hi Alex, I completely understand your frusteration with the increasing popularity of these types of questions. In principle, this isn't a bad addition to the FAQ, though it's not that different from Q's 5 & 6. However, I really think this needs to be put on a shelf for a day or two and reread before committing. :) It really sounds like a personal rant (a la mplayer development a year or so ago) rather than an honest Q&A. In any case, I would remove the sarcastic HINT from the answer, as that just doesn't sound professional :) I've included a couple of grammatical modifications below... >==================== >Q. It is obvious that GRAMPS absolutely needs to become a (client- >server/web-based/PHP/weblog/Javascript/C++/distributed/KDE/Motif/Tcl/ >Win32/C#/You-name-it) application. > When is this going to happen? > >A. The surest way to see it happen is to get it done by yourself. Since >GRAMPS is free/open source, nobody prevents you from taking all of the >code and continuing its development in whatever direction you see fit. >In doing so, you may consider giving your new project another name to >avoid confusion with the continuing GRAMPS development. If you would >like GRAMPS project to provide advise, expertise, filters, etc., we ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ like the GRAMPS advice >will gladly cooperate with your new project. to ensure compatability or import/export options to your new format of a project. (?) >If, however, you would like GRAMPS project to to adopt your strategy, >you would need to convince GRAMPS developers that your strategy is good >for GRAMPS. And superior to the present development strategy. >P.S. I was going to even suggest an example name for the KDE port -- >KRAMPS -- but then decided not to :-) Or, along the lines of Numerical python and the "perceived" attitude of the developers, maybe GRAMPS should become GRUMPY? Cheers, -Don -- ________________________________________________ Donald A. Peterson | dpe...@si... Ph.D. Research Associate | Dept. of Chemistry | PH: (541) 737-7079 Oregon St. University | FAX: (541) 737-0480 ------------------------------------------------ |