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Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like
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Nick Roberts |
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Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like |
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Tue, 1 Jan 2008 16:09:06 +1300 |
> David Matuszek (star CS professor at UPenn) has been griping at me
> for years about things like features he relied upon disappearing
> during version upgrades. He's made it very clear that he thinks this
> sort of thing is a symptom of inattention to what users are actually
> doing with the software by developers too obsessed with the next cool
> hack. I think that counts as both software and project croticism.
Do you know if he reported these things to the mailing list? I think we need
a reality check here: Emacs is a voluntary project, and if users aren't
prepared to make bug reports then it's unlikely that any version control
system, no matter how good, will allow a handful to developers to avoid such
pitfalls.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, (continued)
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Alan Mackenzie, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like,
Nick Roberts <=