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2008.12.18 19:35 "Re: 3.9.0 release, Was: tiffvers.h - TIFFLIB_RELEASE macro addition", by Frank Warmerdam
Lee Howard wrote: >> Lee, >> >> Once per week I feel guilty about having done nothing, as I believe you >> predicted might happen. I don't even recall the issue in great deal and >> one thing that holds me back is the need to do a bunch of research to >> understand the issue fully. > > I don't want you feeling guilty. It's not your job to satisfy > everyone's whims with respect to the software. I think you're just the > maintainer, which means you guide things along and arrange releases. I > don't think that you're responsible to code up things upon request. > > I *do* feel like those who had some complaint against releasing 3.9.0 > immediately need to step forward with appropriate code changes. > Certainly they should be afforded time to develop those patches, but my > impression is that those patches aren't coming ever. So they either > need to do so, or we need to move on without those changes. Lee, I agreed with the ABI objections, and accepted the task to resolve the issue before a 3.9 release. So that is why I feel guilty. I'm actively ducking responsibility for a libjpeg fork in another forum to avoid more of that sort of guilt! Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent