Re: [Exist-development] [Exist-commits] Context attributes....please vote!

[Thomas W. <tho...@gm...>]

Adam,

All points you make are both valid and important. I agree it is vital to
know when to listen and when (not) to talk, especially when one
misunderstands completely the context of the conversation.

Please accept my apologies for butting in.

Thomas

On 2 February 2010 09:58, Adam Retter <ad...@ex...> wrote:

> On 1 February 2010 19:34, Thomas White <tho...@gm...> wrote:
> > I hope this will be taken in the best possible way.
> >
> > I could never understand  why a functionality that is used by some
> > users could be proposed to be removed by other users either who don't use
> it
> > or don't like it.
> >
> > If something have got a momentum it should stay. It is there, it does not
> > require any additional resources and brings other routes to more
> solutions.
>
> This is not how good software is built, but more importantly its not
> how it is maintained. We have had plenty of contributions in the past,
> some of excellent quality and some of not. But if we just allowed
> anyone to add anything we would end up with a mess, everyone thinks
> eXist should be something different, at present it is a lot of
> different things to different people - but the core team tries not to
> dilute the product too much. Maintainability is also a huge issue for
> us. Basically we like features to be discussed by the core team.
>
>
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