Re: [ros-dev] Trunk. Development. Testing.

[art yerkes]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:53:09 -0400
Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> wrote:

>   I'm going to lose a friend over this, but
> whatever.
>  
>  I only have one comment:
>  
>  Get a TC that has the time and will to do his job as outlined in the TC
>  manifesto, and that finds a proper Testing Team as outlined in that same
>  manifesto, which we all voted on and agreed as part of our constitution.
>  
>  Maybe one more:
>  
>  Don't bitch at the most active developer when he used to have his own
>  branch that "it's not fair his ReactOS hare more features!!!" and then
>  hold a vote that bans "Misc branches", then complain about why he
>  doesn't use branches. It seems Art is the only one that remembers this :) 
Alex: I agree but I certainly don't hold it against waxdragon.  He's been
working hard and doing a good job with what he had.  I think you're being
as unfair to him as casper ever was to you.

I've been pretty guilty myself, but reactos hasn't been an easy project to
work on recently; between recrimination and brokenness I've felt pretty 
alienated from working on trunk.  We need to increase hacker friendliness
here otherwise we're really sunk.  If nobody can even run reactos just to
turn on debug messages, then I think we'll have trouble getting new devs.
Most of the devs we've had until recently joined when the GUI got going and
reactos had some successes running some apps.

We need a stable branch, or we need to branch dangerous edits.  There's
no other choice imo.  We can live with broken branches.  We can't live
with a 100% nonworking operating system in trunk.

As to who's fault it is, it should not be up to one person or one group
to solve it whenever things are broken.  Putting it all on Wax really is
a despicable thing to do.  We each need to take responsibility for our
stuff when it's keeping ReactOS from booting or installing and allowing
others to work.
-- 
Discordant is the murmur at such treading down of lovely things while
god's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.  Call that man only
blest who has in sweet tranquility brought his life to close.
If only I could act as such, my hope is good.
-- Aeschylus' Agamemnon (translated by H. W. Smyth)