[Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

[David Gerard]

On 7 September 2011 09:15, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> We need to stop wasting time and energy on personal wishes of two
> Board members. As it isn't about removing the content, any solution is
> better than wasting willingness on one nonconstructive and decadent
> project. If that time and energy was spent on rewriting Parser, we
> would have WYSIWYG editor a year or two ago.


Although I broadly agree with the rest of your message, I disagree
with the Parser bit on the end - basically, the parser rewrite had to
pass muster with someone at Brion or Tim level, as there's not really
anyone else who would be able to say "these bits of syntax are out"
and have it stick; and since I suspect Tim would rather spork his eyes
out than read the words "parser rewrite" ever again, getting Brion in
to work on it was the only way to make it go forward. Developer effort
is not fungible in the face of politics :-)


- d.