Re: [fluid-dev] The 1.1.0 milestone

[David Henningsson]

Bernat Arlandis i Mañó skrev:
> First, I sent this message but it didn't get to my mailbox and it seems
> to be ignored by everyone so I guess it didn't reach your mailbox
> neither, I think it's interesting:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2009-04/msg00044.html

I got it, read it, and mainly agreed with what you said. The more I
think about it, for Debian it does not hurt much to depend on GPL
libraries. For the rest of the world it could make sense to add editline
support.

> With all this big changes and new plans, I'm wondering where does lie
> the 2.0 branch? I could have done some work these holidays but I have
> the feeling that we're diverging and I prefer to wait for the water to
> calm down. Before starting this branch I was like one year reading the
> list and I knew about the development status of FS, and the Miguel's
> fork. Nowadays I see people jumping in with his own ideas but without
> knowing much of what has been talked here lately.

Being one of the people "jumping in", I don't know much about Miguel's
fork/branch or the 2.0 branch. That's why I asked for some pointers, so
I don't have to read an entire year of messages. What I'm looking for
the answer to is why all of you decided to branch instead of doing code
cleanup one piece at a time, into the stable branch. I'm sure you had
good reasons for doing so, I just don't see them.

> I know everyone's ideas are the best and mine aren't any better unless
> demonstrated, but I already said the 2.0 branch would take some time and
> work and doing it alone isn't rewarding. Besides, it might happen that
> when it's ready no one is interested on it and I end having a fork that
> I didn't want to start.

I share your fears about the 2.0 branch. It's not fun to see one's code
being thrown away, especially if one has been working with it in his
spare time!

> I think I will stop my activity from now on until I see where FS is
> heading and how. I don't want to spend more time on it until it has a
> clear route and better organization. Since some things that were planned
> for 2.0 are now included in the 1.1.0 plan and others are going on a
> tangent, I think it's time to talk about it all.

How is the 2.0 branch doing currently? What has been done and what
remains? Perhaps there are parts that can be merged already?

// David