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On 8/20/2010 9:22 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/20/2010 06:00 AM, Steve Holden wrote:
>>
>> My intention was to highlight the fact that issues will (eventually) be
>> re-raised thanks to the phenomenal group memory of this list. But of
>> course the issue might have had attention (or at least been resolved as
>> "wontfix" with appropriate discussion) in an issue tracker.
> 
> Or, more likely, sat for four years with no change in status, because
> the same person who hasn't had time to fix the tex package also hasn't
> had time to visit a tracker web page.
> 
Yes, ultimately it's all down to the availability of effort. We have
similar problems in the Python world (where we use roundup). Though a
small team has recently started to address the question of stalled
issues, there just isn't enough effort to get to everything that comes
in and still keep the language moving forward.

I'd like to take this opportunity to say how much I personally
appreciate the availability of Cygwin - I use it daily, and it makes the
computing experience on Windows far more bearable and productive than it
otherwise would be. I'll happily overlook the occasional crabby reply to
a thoughtless comment, given the amazing work that the team collectively
produces.

regards
 Steve
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