Re: How to port applets to GNOME2 (again)

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:03:46PM +0100, Ole Laursen wrote:
> > If people really consider it a boring task, I can see that it is
> > unfair of me to suggest that they spend their time with it. But else I
> > don't understand your attitude.
> 
> It's not an attitude, just the facts of how open source
> works. Everyone does what they consider highest priority. What didn't
> get done is what no one did. There's no central command & control that
> provides a rationale for the big-picture "what got done," it is simply
> the sum of what people did.
> 
> So, the way to be sure something happens is to do it yourself.
> Richard Stallman's answer to "when will foo be done?" has always been
> "faster if you help."

Yeah, I agree. It's a substantial part of what makes free software fun. I
just wish I could raise the priority of improving the reference
documentation in the heads of the library maintainers. I do believe
talking to people about it can help. That's why I didn't like being
told to shut up and go fix it myself. :-)

> FWIW there's a fairly serious effort to unify all the important widget
> APIs into GTK which has a full-docs-on-all-new-API policy. This is one
> reason some people don't prioritize libgnomeui docs very high.

OK.

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/