Re: Opinion polls UIKit and Website...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > > it definitely refutes the assertion that patches are not accepted
> > Sure. It’s the presentation that’s at fault. There’s an internal feeling that 
> > GNUstep is doing stuff and welcomes external contribution, and an external 
> > presentation of a stale bug database that isn’t linked to the source code
> Looking at your patches, I see your point.
> They are almost all gsweb and gdl2.
Yes, they are not part of "core" (read below). I wonder if somebody 
maintains those parts and if those person are active on the mailing list 
at all.
> Similarly, problems with gsweb ought not to relfect upon the main GNUstep 
> project, but apparently they do.
That's why bugs have a "category".
That's why we have a "core" and several other apps and libraries.


> > (and I wonder how many people find the source mirror on github and think there 
> > hasn’t been a commit in over three months, too).
> I agree ... mirroring to github seems to have been a mistake.  I'm pretty sure 
> Greg wrote warnings with it to say it was a reads-only mirror, but warnings are 
> not sufficient as people don't read/notice them.
Well, an added problem is that the mirror service is not working.. Greg? :)

I'd prefer to stay on SVN, however I think bringing back SVN from GNA to 
Savannah would be a good idea.

Riccardo