Re: [MiNT] qed

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 14:28 +0200, Peter Persson wrote:
> 13 aug 2009 kl. 14.13 skrev Alan Hourihane:
> 
> > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 14:02 +0200, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> >> Am 13.08.2009, 12:50 Uhr, schrieb J. F. Lemaire  
> >> <jflemaire@skynet.be>:
> >>
> >>> access to the CVS I think. So maybe sending the patches to the
> >>> mintlist would make their inclusion faster.
> >>
> >> I do not think this is a good idea. First, I'm havily hacking many  
> >> parts,
> >> so it would be rather large, and not everyone wants to receive thos
> >> kb-posts.
> >> Second: who does it then?
> 
> Sorry if I step on someone's toes here, that's not my intention at all  
> in such case.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the procedures involved with patches, CVS and  
> all that, and I do recognize that coding style and code quality are  
> fundamental parts in a collaborated project such as freemint. I do  
> however miss one fundamental piece in the puzzle - the user  
> perspective. Helmut shows initiative which is extremely appreciated,  
> so let's try these patches in action (Helmut could supply binaries  
> perhaps?) and see what it's all about. If the changes works good IRL,  
> let's help him clean it up (I'm no kernel hacker myself, but given a  
> documented coding standard I could perhaps help out). Knowing myself I  
> think it's easy to be put off even by minor friction like this.

Absolutely. Please don't be put off Helmut. We definitely appreciate the
work you put in.

Hopefully if we can break the patche up small enough then we can get
more eyes and hopefully more interest in the parts people work on as it
makes it more visible that people are working on code and not behind
closed doors.

Thank you Helmut!

Alan.