Joel Holdsworth joel@airwebreathe.org.uk writes:
Speaking personally: This project has already taken me over a year to get this far, and after all this painstaking work I'm really keen to get it out to the world, but I'm so short of time right now, and it feels like every time I try and submit, there are more of these never ending hoops to jump through. From my perspective I won't abandon this work that I've spent so much time on, but it's becoming this never ending nightmare of obstacles. I'm looking at the big picture and wondering; is turning a very minor mess of 9 files into 1 per icon really the best use of my time, when I could be productively contributing to areas of need within the FOSS world that will have a real effect on FOSS users.
I want to keep pursuing this and I respect your opinion very much as the veteron maintainer of this project. Your uncompromising comittment to quality has resulted in an excellent and long standing project, it's just that I'm finding the lack of flexibility quite hard to cope with. Is there no way we could compromise on this?
I'm certainly open to suggestions on how to reduce the work needed for the first step, but it needs to be a step in the right direction. Adding 500 files and reorganizing many directories is not a good intermediate measure. I definitely want your work committed too, in fact I included it in the requirements for the 1.2 release; but I'm not willing to make a mess of the source tree just to get this in sooner, as I'm sure you understand.