[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       taglib-devel
Subject:    Re: TagLib's future
From:       Sander Jansen <s.jansen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-05-14 14:32:58
Message-ID: CACj81kGA20NqZiKEhnTVEOmzEJpbPTb1a5nBd_3SvbUeu-=MUQ () mail ! gmail ! com
[Download RAW message or body]

[Attachment #2 (multipart/alternative)]


On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Tsuda Kageyu <tsuda.kageyu@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Luk=C3=A1=C5=A1,
>
> First, thank you for kindly accepting a lot of pull requests of mine.
>
> Although I'm willing to take on your burden and repay your kindness, I
> don't think I'm an appropriate person for reviewing the code, since most
> changes since v1.9.1 has been made by me. (And I'm the type of individual
> that doesn't hesitate to make drastic changes as you know.)
>
> So I suggest that we release beta versions several times and call for
> feedback from the users (especially developers of the projects rely on
> TagLib).
>
> Cheers,
> Kageyu
>
> 2015-05-13 8:20 GMT+09:00 Luk=C3=A1=C5=A1 Lalinsk=C3=BD <lalinsky@gmail.c=
om>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Since there are people asking for a new release more and more often and
>> it seems that I'm not really able to do it, I'd like to discuss TagLib's
>> future. A few years back Scott asked me to coordinate the 1.6 release an=
d
>> generally become the maintainer of the project, but since then I have no=
t
>> worked on many projects that use TagLib and I currently have no direct u=
se
>> for it myself.
>>
>> We have have a long list of pull requests on GitHub, a lot of changes in
>> master and at least one backward-compatible release pending. I find it v=
ery
>> hard to motivate myself to review pull requests, especially if they are
>> questionable in some way. This was already showing in the last release,
>> where I didn't take my time to review all the changes properly and the
>> result was not very good. I'm afraid that if I try to do this new releas=
e,
>> it will end similarly badly.
>>
>> So I'd like to discuss what would be the best way to go forward.
>>
>> Lukas
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> taglib-devel mailing list
>> taglib-devel@kde.org
>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/taglib-devel
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> taglib-devel mailing list
> taglib-devel@kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/taglib-devel
>
>
I'd be happy to review current master branch changes. Should I use github
comments to add a reviewed by?

[Attachment #5 (text/html)]

<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May \
13, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Tsuda Kageyu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:tsuda.kageyu@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">tsuda.kageyu@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi \
Lukáš,</div><div><br></div><div>First, thank you for kindly accepting a lot of pull \
requests of mine.</div><div><br></div><div>Although I&#39;m willing to take on your \
burden and repay your kindness, I don&#39;t think I&#39;m an appropriate person for \
reviewing the code, since most changes since v1.9.1 has been made by me. (And I&#39;m \
the type of individual that doesn&#39;t hesitate to make drastic changes as you \
know.)</div><div><br></div><div>So I suggest that we release beta versions several \
times and call for feedback from the users (especially developers of the projects \
rely on TagLib).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Kageyu</div></div><div \
class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">2015-05-13 8:20 \
GMT+09:00 Lukáš Lalinský <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lalinsky@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">lalinsky@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>:<br></div></div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi \
all,<div><br></div><div>Since there are people asking for a new release more and more \
often and it seems that I&#39;m not really able to do it, I&#39;d like to discuss \
TagLib&#39;s future. A few years back Scott asked me to coordinate the 1.6 release \
and generally become the maintainer of the project, but since then I have not worked \
on many projects that use TagLib and I currently have no direct use for it \
myself.</div><div><br></div><div>We have have a long list of pull requests on GitHub, \
a lot of changes in master and at least one backward-compatible release pending. I \
find it very hard to motivate myself to review pull requests, especially if they are \
questionable in some way. This was already showing in the last release, where I \
didn&#39;t take my time to review all the changes properly and the result was not \
very good. I&#39;m afraid that if I try to do this new release, it will end similarly \
badly.</div><div><br></div><div>So I&#39;d like to discuss what would be the best way \
to go forward.  </div><div><br></div><div>Lukas</div><div><br></div></div> \
<br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br> taglib-devel \
mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:taglib-devel@kde.org" \
target="_blank">taglib-devel@kde.org</a><br> <a \
href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/taglib-devel" \
target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/taglib-devel</a><br> \
<br></blockquote></div><br></div> \
<br>_______________________________________________<br> taglib-devel mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:taglib-devel@kde.org">taglib-devel@kde.org</a><br>
<a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/taglib-devel" \
target="_blank">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/taglib-devel</a><br> \
<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I&#39;d be happy to review \
current master branch changes. Should I use github comments to add a reviewed \
by?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>


[Attachment #6 (text/plain)]

_______________________________________________
taglib-devel mailing list
taglib-devel@kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/taglib-devel


[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

Configure | About | News | Add a list | Sponsored by KoreLogic