On Jul 9, 2011, at 1:48 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Sat, 7/9/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at wrote:
[...]
The problem with forks is if improvements don't migrate upstream.
I think it's both a problem-with and a cause-of.
Yup, that makes sense.
Then we don't benefit from sharing the fixes. Making things migrate upstream takes time in itself.
How does one figure out who has the responsibility to make sure
things migrate upstream (for example: [initbang] and [closebang])?
Mostly by someone deciding its important enough that they want to work
on it themself, and then lots of testing and communication.
Try getting a patch into the Linux kernel, that'll make Pd seem like cake ;-)
Yes, I would hope that making changes to the core of the largest
free software project in the history of computing is a wee bit more
difficult than making changes to Pd.
Actually, there are much bigger projects than Linux, things like
Debian are quite a bit larger in scale.
.hc
-Jonathan
.hc
-Jonathan
And anything assigned to Miller and reviewed
positively by
IOhannes I'm going to defer any action on until Miller
responds.
.hc
-Jonathan
Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management ->
http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
"[T]he greatest purveyor of violence in the world today [is] my own government." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://at.or.at/hans/