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Re: Brick 1 x 6 x 5 with Rocket Launch Pattern – RELOADED
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Fri, 17 Dec 2004 19:51:42 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Don Heyse wrote:

Which one looks better?  Now I'm not an official reviewer, but I'd
have to say your part gets my vote.  An improperly dithered dark blue
clearly beats the yucky magenta color 5 used around the numbers in the
official part.  What's up with that?

Um, unless the standard is relaxed, while I agree that Willy's part
rocks, it doesn't pass the check process as defined.

That's what I think needs some discussion, whether the dithering
requirement ought to be relaxed or not, rather than how cool Willy
and his part are. And I think it's up to the LSC to lead that
discussion (or let us know they thought about it and don't agree
and here's why)...

Wow, did you intentionally put that condescending tone in there,
or am I reading too much into it?

Hopefully the latter. I did not intend to have any condescending tone in there
at all! I'm talking about appropriate process. If you read it in there I must
not have done a very good job of communicating and I apologise. Either that or
you're looking for a tone that isn't there.

Must be the nasty blinky red
error message that's gotten to me.  I hate blinky text.

I'm not very fond of it either...

Anyhow, my non-LSC-member (and thus pretty much worthless)

NO!!! It's not at all worthless! *I*'m not an LSC member and I don't think my
opinion is worthless either!

What I was driving at is that if this is an important issue, (which I think it
is) the LSC ought to be standing up and voicing their own opinions, and
soliciting the opinions of all the authors, toolwriters, reviewers and users,
just as I've always said in the past. I'm really sorry that apparently didn't
come through this time.

But what I also mean by "lead" is that they, at least in my personal view, ought
to be getting in front of the discussion, not sitting back and not saying
anything much. Which sort of was my perception (rightly or wrongly, at least
till Orion spoke up) of what they were doing, at least externally. Not being on
the LSC means I didn't have any visibility to the fact that they were discussing
this already.

Also what I meant by lead is that it's the LSC's place (and NOT the SteerCo's
place) to drive that discussion. I want to be very sensitive to SteerCo hewing
to the appropriate organizational/technical boundary, see...

opinion
is that the dithering requirement should perhaps be relaxed to more
of a recommendation than a requirement.

I agree.

After all, even the ldraw.org
parts tracker doesn't use the original LDRAW.EXE to render the parts.
It uses something more like a portable open source reference
implementation of LDRAW.EXE.

I agree again. I think there is some talk of a new reference implementation but
I'm not sure.

++Lar



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  Re: Brick 1 x 6 x 5 with Rocket Launch Pattern – RELOADED
 
(...) The LSC mailing list archives are public and a link to them can be found here: (URL) we're not completely out in the open (i.e. discussing policy on Lugnet), our discussions are available for any one who wants to follow along. -Orion (20 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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(...) Yeah, I got the blinking error message in preview and still posted it. I couldn't figure out the problem. Sorry, It must be the .bmp thing. I didn't think of that because they were only 8k apiece, but I can see why you'd want to avoid the (...) (20 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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