On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:25:26AM -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
I think it is simple, in my experience your assertions are right on
the money. They can't be bothered to learn it and/or they aren't good
enough to learn it. If it is difficult for them to learn and/or they
cannot learn it then they are doomed to failure on the re-write as
they simply aren't good enough developers to redo it . Act like a
developer: when your car runs badly, just melt it down and rebuild it
from scratch, that must be easier than understanding how it is broken
and fixing it.
Not sure how one believes if they cannot debug the last script/program
they wrote (or someone else did) that the new script/program will be
any different. Developers seems to believe that all previous authors
were incompetent and did things for no good reason and that they can
do a significantly better job this time so want to start over. Too
many people have told me that unlike the past team that failed using a
given process,this time we are going to do it the exact same way but
we are going to be perfect and not have the same issues and not fail.
This is just FUD and ignorant of the Wayland project. Most of the
developers are current X.org developers or have worked on related code
used by X.org (input, drm, etc.). They're well aware of the current
X.org code and limitations in Wayland.
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Jonathan Billings <billings(a)negate.org>