Re: The point of open source ...
- From: Jules Bean <jmlb2 hermes cam ac uk>
- To: Joe Williams <jwilliam cs iupui edu>
- CC: balsa-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: The point of open source ...
- Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 09:30:13 +0100
Joe Williams wrote:
>
> (from ryan)
> > I think the point of open source development is that there is no "one
> > developer" whom you must beg to implement features. I agree with you that
> > POP support is critical to any good email package, as people will be using
> > POP for quite some time to come. But why get all huffy about it when the
> > source code and general development is open? If you do not have the
> > programming skills yourself, someone out there probably will -- playing a
> > support role like organizing coders would be better than just complaining,
> > wouldn't it?
>
> Err, that is, of course, if the developers bother to accept source
> code from other people. About a month ago I had some free time
> and decided to try to contribute to a GNUish project. Balsa seemed
> like it could use some help. I'm new to the GUI stuff so I decided I would
> get used to it by doing grunt-work and fix bugs before I tried to do
> something flashy like add PGP support. I sent some fixes for the mailbox
> configuring stuff to this list and asked about how to get CVS access. So
> far, no one integrated my fixes to the CVS repository, no one answered my
> question on CVS, and no one bothered to tell me my code was a piece of crap
> and they didn't want it(if this, indeed, was the reason why it wasn't added).
> Of course I could go and create "Joe's Balsa" but it's not worth the effort.
> If Balsa wants to die because of lack of developer support, so be it. I'm sure
> some other GNOME mailer would spring up to take it's place.
*grins*
Well, when you sent those patches, no one was working on balsa.
So it's not that anyone deliberately didn't integrate them - it's simply
that no one was working on it at all.
I have your patches, and I'll have a look at them when I get a chance -
as I will look at Morten Welinder's patches too.
Your work certainly wasn't in vain.
Jules
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