Re: demo assistant

[deloptes <deloptes yahoo com>]

José Alburquerque wrote:

thanks for taking your time!

> El Apr 30, 2010, a las 4:15 AM, deloptes <deloptes yahoo com> escribió:
> 
>> The first time I asked about assistant, you (or someone else) said
>> write a
>> patch. In the meanwhile someone has done this already. If it was
>> planned it
>> would be nice to know prior to spending time on it.
> 
> It was Murray who said that he would welcome a patch.  After you said
> that you could only provide the code (and not a patch), he told you
> that it would take longer to tend to the matter.
> 
> No one was working on the same thing you were working on.  As was
> already said, it is sometimes easier to start from scratch in some
> circumstances.  Please don't feel insulted that your code was not
> used.  This often happens in an open source environment.

I'm not insulted at all. "This often happens in an open source environment."

> 
>> This is exactly like firstlevel support in an odd company, where
>> something
>> is said only to bounce the customer back.
>> I can not demand on more cooperativeness (as we are doing all this
>> on free
>> bases), but it would be extremely nice and helpful if you'd do so.
>> (And by
>> you I mean all)
> 
> Don't get confused by thinking that people that help out freely out of
> the enjoyment of programming are actually part of the company in
> charge of *mm projects.  Some of us offer our services out of a desire
> to exert our abilities and contribute to a fine open source community
> such as this one.
> 
> We post our contributions just like you do and then leave it up to the
> maintainers to accept the patches, comment on them or reject them if
> they like.  It's all part of the process.
> 

I'm aware of all of this, thanks. I also understand, there are different
people and by one single mail you can not guess what the other part is
really thinking of.
I, personally, needed some advice by someone more experienced with gtkmm and
the specific problem I had. It is also not about a solution but more about
an elegant one, so I can safely wait until the example in the docs has been
updated. I'm experienced enough to find my own solution, but from time to
time I need a guidance especially in newer area like gtkmm.

I don't think that it's worth discussing all of it, if it were I would have
replied earlier.

You can safely cc me when the docs are updated.

Thanks again and kind regards