"mc is over!?" - post by Ilia Maslakov on Russian-speaking IT site

Volodymyr Buell vbuell at gmail.com
Wed May 27 16:30:39 UTC 2015


Everything you said is right. But what current mc lacks are new features.
Developers can be very good at code refactoring or cleaning-up or rewriting
the editor to support charset detection... but in reality what people want
is the tool that do what THEY want - and yes, plugins ARE the solution.
Just give people a chance and github would bursting with mc extensions...

So that's why I suggested you - in my opinion you are trying to change a
course to the right direction.

Another thing is the fact that the team is going to pass the project to guy
why, i believe, is more anonymous to the project than you. I have nothing
against Luca, do not misunderstand me, but still prefer the poll.
On May 27, 2015 11:42 AM, "Mooffie" <mooffie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/27/15, Volodymyr Buell <vbuell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Please organise a pol to choose a right person.
> >
> > Personally my opinion - why not to give a steering wheel to Mooffie
>
> Hey, hold the horses. I'm not at all a programming hotshot, and being
> practically anonymous here so far, I should be treated with suspicion.
> To borrow the [in]famous idiom, I haven't proven myself to be "real
> man" ;-) And nobody has actually looked into my code yet. There are
> better people here who have shown aptitude, responsibility and
> dedication for years (Egmont comes to mind).
>
> >
> > It seems [that Mooffie] did much more for mc than anybody
> > else in past few years.
>
> No, that's patently untrue. First, it's just an illusion that writing
> mc^2 involved a lot of work. Second, Andrew Borodin has been doing a
> tremendous (and fantastic) work of cleaning up the code. People
> perhaps aren't aware of this. It won't be right to say that MC
> stagnates.
>
> As an aside:
>
> As one for whom MC is the center of the universe, I was surprised to
> learn that this is not the case for everybody, and that MC's lifeblood
> was not flowing as strong as one would imagine. Until a year or two
> ago I was convinced MC's development was financed and steered by the
> Illuminati...
>
> I'd guess, based on my own experience, that people (that is,
> programmers) are simply not aware of MC's predicament. After all, how
> would they? There's no sign for that unless one stumbles upon specific
> posts here.
>
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