Re: [htdig-dev] Problems with whatsnew.pl

[Gabriele B. <an...@us...>]

Dear Geoff,

    I agree with *everything* you said, every *single* word. You have all 
my *moral* support and I hope from now the real one again.

    Thanks for the great work you and Gilles are doing in your spare time.

Ciao
-Gabriele

At 21.52 16/12/2001 -0600, Geoff Hutchison wrote:
>At 11:57 AM +1100 12/17/01, Alexander Cohen wrote:
>>What? They are still working on 3.1.x almost a thousand years from now?
>
>OK, let's get some things straight. The point of a production branch is to 
>fix bugs as they come up, so that people have a solid, stable, secure 
>release. People still use the 2.0.x and 2.2.x series of the Linux kernel, 
>even though there's a "stable" 2.4.x series.
>
>I suspect even when 3.2.0 or 3.2.1 or 3.2.2 versions of ht://Dig are 
>released, there will be people using 3.1.6 or whatever the current 3.1.x 
>release is.
>
>>Talk about a slow development cycle, will the universal increase of
>>entropy then be an important factor in the development cycle of the 3.2
>
>One of the side points of free software is that you have the source. If 
>you think the development is moving slowly or not going in a direction 
>you'd like, you should contribute or find people to contribute in the 
>direction you want. It's all there in the copyright. That's your freedom.
>
>A popular saying in the US is that "with freedom comes responsibility."
>
>At the moment, we have two people actively contributing and both of us are 
>quite busy. Gilles and I also handle quite a bit of support on the mailing 
>list and this obviously cuts from our time to code.
>
>So I'll leave it to you. If you think the development cycle of 3.2 is 
>moving too slowly, contribute yourself in any of a number of ways, find 
>other contributors in your stead, or don't complain.
>
>Cheers,
>-Geoff
>
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