[Koha-bugs] [Bug 11193] Update Queryparser conf file to take into account changes made by bug 8252

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--- Comment #15 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to mathieu saby from comment #14)
> Well, I've got no time for polemic, and, as Marcel put it, I am still doing
> some work on Koha, but only on my free time, and about some old patches I
> wrote when I was in charge. And I'm moving to another town, so that's not
> the best circumstancies for me...
> What I wrote for QP was not aimed to hurt anybody, it was a general remark
> for the "community".
> 
> Mathieu

My apologies if my response appeared overly charged. I suppose I did take
exception to the lines "it should be well documented and bug-proof, and the
older code should have been deprecated", and further exception to the lines "So
I hope somebody will take care of that. Even if there is no formal maintainer,
at least writing up-to-date documentation about how it works and how
configuring it would be great...".

In hindsight, I'm sure that your remarks were motivated by a desire to be
helpful rather than demanding or critical. In the moment, I read them as the
latter. I read a great article years ago about how "should" is often an
unhelpful word as it implies obligation and criticism. It often doesn't feel
good to be told that you "should" do something, especially when you're
volunteering your time for free to help where you can. 

I agree that it would be helpful to have up-to-date documentation and for the
QP code to be bug-free. As I mentioned, I even have lots of ideas about how to
do it, but there's no sponsorship for it. I think that's a key part of why it
wasn't documented or finished in the first place. No one cared enough about it
to support it. As a librarian and a developer, I care quite a bit about search.
I've read through the QP code and the Zebra code, so that I might understand it
as thoroughly as possible. So now I understand what works, what doesn't work,
and a fair bit about what needs to be done, but there's no support. Mostly,
there are demands and critiques, and neither of those are helpful.

So, my apologies again for the length and tone of my past comments. I am
probably overly sensitive when it comes to search in Koha and expectations with
open source. I'm not an adherent to the Linus Torvald style of communication,
so I probably should have been nicer ;).

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