[Aptitude-devel] Stepping down as maintainer/developer

[Daniel Hartwig]

Hi Manuel,

> So when you complain about why I do change things and that I'm
> breaking legacy, well, that's often a bad thing to do when the old
> group of developers is present, to not disrupt things.  When people
> come afresh into a [somewhat] dead project, revisiting old decisions
> and practices (part of refactoring) usually helps to improve overall
> quality, but most importantly make the new people more intimately know
> the code and better prepared to fix the present and upcoming problems.
>  And helps to establish the "new legacy", instead of having to cope
> forever with the legacy established by others and that the new ones
> necessarily do not agree with.
>

I am not sure which comments you are refering to here as I never
mentioned "breaking legacy".

Some of your changes made large, non-functional modifications to
established code (dangerous; can introduce hard-to-detect bugs),
and others were made in a *style* that is inconsistent with the
rest of the code (which is very easy to change).

I am not at all opposed to making improvements to the code.  I am
sorry if you have gotten that impression.


Are you considering to stay on?  If so, I will gladly take the time to
address the rest of your comments.