Re: [Vala] Worried about the state of Genie

[Tal Liron <tal liron gmail com>]

"Useful" is a relative term... it's useful as is, despite bugs and 
missing features. However, in my opinion more work needs to be done 
*continuously* in order to make it not only useful, but of quality 
consistent with that of the Vala language. Low-quality pieces of the 
Vala project diminish its overall value.

Jamie, I hope you will step up! Genie a terrific contribution to free 
software.

On 08/29/2013 05:10 PM, Jürg Billeter wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 16:53 +0800, Tal Liron wrote:
> > But this discussion on specifics is pointless if no work will be done on
> > Genie! I believe that the Vala team should reach a clear decision as to
> > what to do with Genie. If Genie cannot be supported, then the
> > responsible thing to do would be to say so and update the GNOME site.
> Genie support was merged under the condition that Jamie keeps
> maintaining it (or we find someone else who is willing and able to
> maintain it). He wrote a couple of days ago that he will try and support
> Genie to deal with serious bugs, but he's not planning to invest time in
> enhancements.
>
> If this is not sufficient to keep Genie alive and useful, someone else
> needs to step up as maintainer or we will indeed deprecate it to not
> mislead users.
>
> Regards,
> Jürg