Re: Review lags

Jan Rychter wrote: >>>>>>"Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: >>>>>>"Reiner" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane(a)imap.cc&gt; writes: >>>>>> >>>>>> > Reiner> Can we expect _any_ reaction (yes, no, maybe) from the XEmacs > Reiner> board? > > Stephen> Unfortunately, at this time we're very short-handed for > Stephen> reviewers and developers in general. If there was negative > Stephen> feeling, you'd get a "no", so the answer is "maybe" until it > Stephen> turns into "yes". This is a shortcoming of our relatively > Stephen> decentralized process. > > Reiner> Am I posting to the wrong list? > > Stephen> No and yes. For what you posted that I'm responding to, this > Stephen> is the right place. > > Stephen> If you want to help something to get done a lot faster, you > Stephen> can post a full patch (in the case of a new file, either a > Stephen> patch against /dev/null or the file as an attachment is OK), > Stephen> with appropriate XEmacs-format changelog, to XEmacs Patches > Stephen> <xemacs-patches(a)xemacs.org&gt;. >[...] > >I did just that about a year ago -- I posted a reasonably simple patch >that adds about 4 lines of code to the XEmacs code base. I brought the >issue up again about three weeks ago, and a couple of days ago, but it >seems continuous nagging doesn't get me anywhere. > >The patch (mswindows window id property for XEmacs frames) is necessary, >because without it I cannot support people who want to use my vx-mode >package for dictation with XEmacs under Windows. As it is, my user base >is limited to people who use Linux and run Dragon NaturallySpeaking >under VMware, a rather rare combination. > >I'm getting increasingly disappointed -- I initially switched to XEmacs >because I found the developer community to be more responsive and code >would change quicker. I hate sending those nagging E-mails, it annoys >the developers, it annoys me, and causes people to dislike me for no >good reason. Should I just give up, rework vx-mode to use properties >instead of extents and switch to FSF Emacs? > >I understand "being short-handed for developers", but this attitude will >cause even more developers to go elsewhere. > > hello Jan. i checked your feature to the latest CVS. i have to personally apologize for not getting to this sooner; too much has been going on lately. i changed it slightly so that the value of the `window-id' property is a string, like in X windows. also, it is currently only available through `frame-property'; i didn't implement `mswindows-window-id'. (if we want something like this, it should be called `frame-window-id'.) please also note that david kastrup's views are not shared by the xemacs developers as a whole. i for one am committed to having good ms windows support in xemacs, and in fact do all my development under windows [with lots of help from cygwin].

ben