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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Ok thank you. Please let us know if we can do anything particular to help tracking it down. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Von:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> David Lonie [mailto:david.lonie@kitware.com] <br><b>Gese</b></span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>ndet:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2015 16:37<br><b>An:</b> Kilgus, Thomas<br><b>Cc:</b> Andras Lasso; vtk-developers@vtk.org<br><b>Betreff:</b> Re: [vtk-developers] Anti-aliasing / multi sampling turned off in VTK 6.2?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Kilgus, Thomas <<a href="mailto:t.kilgus@dkfz-heidelberg.de" target="_blank">t.kilgus@dkfz-heidelberg.de</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>That’s all very true, however, my most important question is: Is anyone working on that issue already or not?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Yes.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regarding the rest, letting us know that a feature is important to you is good. Asking for more information to help track-down/fix it on your own is good. "Pressuring" us for a fix is not.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We have to find funding to pay for work on VTK, and sometimes a request is low-priority or too esoteric for existing funding sources to cover. So there are cases where pressuring developers will not work out well.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In this case, the issue is not low-priority and is a regression of a major feature, so we can cover fixing it without much trouble.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>FWIW, I'm sure Thomas wasn't really implying that he was going to pester/pressure/harass us until this gets fixed. I was only trying to (lightheartedly) point out that "pressuring" open-source developers for a fix is not likely to produce the desired results.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dave<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>