Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

[Timm Bäder <mail baedert org>]

On 10.09, Evan Nemerson wrote:
> This is something I've been thinking about lately, too.  We currently
> rely on Jürg and Luca's expertise pretty heavily for development and
> patch review, and since they are both busy with other stuff Vala
> development has slowed down quite a bit.
>
> Assuming we can't organize financing to pay Jürg and/or Luca to work on
> Vala, I think we need to focus on a more decentralized development
> approach where we rely more on contributions from people with less
> expertise with the Vala internals.

I agree that a more decentralized approach would be better, but as I
said that can't possibly happen if nobody ever even tries to work with
valac internals. Basically, I'm not saying that Jürg or Luca need to
even work on valac, but a patch review now and then would already help
a lot. And some of those patches are really quite simple and obviously
correct, but no review except theirs has any weight.

> <snip, rest of the mail>

I assume "more testing" is basically interesting because we need less
(sophisticated) review? That might be true from a functionality POV but
not regarding architecture etc. But more tests are always good of
course.