Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

[Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Timm Bäder <mail baedert org>
> Sent: Sunday, 11 September 2016, 17:43
> Subject: Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

> On 11.09, Al Thomas wrote:
> > Anyone with GNOME commit access can add to the Vala repository.
> > So for these two recent patches, a positive review was given and
> > then the submitter committed their own patch:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760436
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765785

> That's not interesting. In the scope of this thread I don't care about
> bindings whatsoever; that is covered by Rico and Evan.


I chose one of each. One is a binding, one is a patch to vapigen. 

> This thread is specifically about the inactivity of the two maintainers

> of the compiler; 


Clearly for you it is, but other people have expressed concerns about
the "future of Vala" so it is important to demonstrate work on Vala goes on.

> Since wip/transform exists and because that's generally how things work,
> I also assume that the maintainers have some idea of where the project
> should be heading and I don't want patches reviewed by other people to
> later stand in the way of that direction.


That is a fair question. If someone is going to work on the internals should
they take account of the various *transformer.vala files, etc. from wip/transform?

If, however, you are implying you don't want your patches reviewed by others please 

let me know. I have just reviewed a couple of your patches and I understand you
have commit access. So I was expecting after comments were addressed you would commit.
I did not do the review because of this thread, I have had a note of those patches for some 

time because I try and value people's contributions. If you look at your IRC log you 

will see I pointed out about testing for code that shouldn't compile and shortly after
the invalid code test patch was committed.