[Sugar-devel] PR comments on 'Save as'

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Utkarsh

I must apologize for trashing your PR. It takes a lot to get me angry, 
but yesterday I was. After complaining that we did not send emails of 
all of our technical discussions to Sugar_dev and then asking for our 
IRC meetings to be publicly logged, they ignored all of our discussion 
and asked the same questions on the PR that we had already answered 
before over and over.

I appreciate your comments. They show a clear understanding of the 
feature and an ability to express yourself clearly. Since your PR is an 
implementation of a requirement set by me, your response referencing me 
was appropriate and the response you got, out of line.

To me the essence of this feature is two-fold:

1. To require users to supply a title-supplied-by-user.

2. To enable users to resume an activity, make some changes and then 
decide to make the result a new instance - preserving the original. This 
is why
the feature is called 'save as', because that is how user's do this in 
most document-handling applications. Currently, this is not possible in 
Sugar.

I don't know if it is possible, but I would suggest withdrawing this PR 
and creating a new one - same code, of course. Then I think there needs 
to be a gif animation and explanation of the feature. At that point, 
comments would be welcome.

My understanding of this is the PR is the developer's presentation of 
the result of their work to be reviewed for merging into the master. It 
is not a design forum. Before work is done on creating the code 
represented by the PR, the design should be done. No developer can code 
without knowing the intended outcome. Naturally, comments on the PR may 
result in changes to the code but changes made from a working base.

In the end, the developer's may indeed reject this and other PRs and 
thus prevent many Sugar users from benefiting from them. That would be 
sad. However, it is open source and it certainly can and will use be 
used in deployments. This, of course, is one of the great freedoms in 
free software.

Tony