Re: Column View

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

I need sleep.

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• To: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
• Subject: Re: Column View
• Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 01:12:36 -0500

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:16:14PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> It's not "shot down", it's "advised against". Anyone can hack up whatever
> they like, but it may not make sense within the context of GNOME. We are a
> mature project now, and it makes a big difference to patch acceptance and
> change management. I've seen potential developers advised against working on
> new things coming back to hack on bugs, unimplemented features already of
> interest to maintainers, and so on... Grokking where a project is headed and
> working in that direction is usually a good thing for a new contributor. :-)

Well considering that no usability specialists or lead nautilus
developers have chimed in on this idea (Actually dave camp just
mentioned that this won't be done in the 2.6 timeframe)
I don't think its really been
"advised against". But enough third party people have discouraged the
work to give this impression. Of course testing the waters to see if a
contribution is really valuable to the project is a great idea. I just
don't know why people not directly related to nautilus are telling a
potential developer to not bother because they don't like his idea.

John

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