Re: [gnome-love] Intrested in hacking gnome and doing gtop tree view

["Luke Hutchison" <lukeh email com>]

Please give the guy a break, he's just trying to start out by doing
something manageable and useful... Remember this list is "gnome-love"...

> Hi gnome-love folks,
>
> can you please remove this item from the todo list and tell him in
> a polite way that:
>
> * if he sends me a working and complete patch and I don't have any
>   work with this patch, it will go in
>
> * he cannot expect any help whatsoever from me and I will not answer
>   any questions
>
> * there is little to no chance at all that his code will make it
>   into GTop2
>
> GTop is dead code and scheduled for a complete rewrite; if someone
> wants to work on it, the correct way is to start with GTop2, but
> this'd involve a lot of API designing work for both GTop2 and LibGTop,
> so it cannot be done by a complete newbie.
>
> My plan is to use gob / pong / bonobo-conf and maybe e-table for GTop2
> and to make the whole design much more object oriented.
>
> --
> Martin Baulig
> martin gnome org (private)
> baulig suse de (work)