Thorsten Froehlich  wrote in message <48843f8c@news.povray.org>:
>							      I saw you have a 
> few open bugs. Here are small fixes for those bugs.

Stop here. The source code was not available. The conversation is therefore:
"I saw you have a few open bugs. I can not fix them without the source code.
I will go and see if I can help someone else."

>		       We expect developer to first show their ability before 
> we would like to invite them as regular contributors.

And for that, they need access to the source code to propose patches. The
current source code, not an obsolete one.

> With POV-Ray we are talking about a ray-tracer, and several of the 
> algorithms require (US) graduate-level math to just understand heir basics. 
> Add the ability to program in C++ on an advanced level, and soon the number 
> of potential contributors approaches one to zero :-(

And sadly, the lack of access to the source code made him go away two years
ago.

(And by the way, POV-Ray is not just a ray-tacer, there would also be some
useful work in all the system part.)

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