I feel like pretty much every point in my post was lost somewhere in the back and forth of translation so I'm gonna try to clarify some points.
On patreon news, I wasn't talking about Game content, the opposite in fact. For some reasons, a lot of devs put text news like this new year message as patreons only (unlike you). For updates, polls and content why not but for simple text walls describing what they did recently, I feel like opening them to public costs nothing and shows the devs dedication and progress to potential patreons.
On Rakugo, I'm not clear on what you consider DD code and what you consider Rakugo code. In the NY post, you wrote:
From this I assumed that you developped a program relatively similar to Rakugo for your personal use and used it as a base for the DD port. That's why I was asking if you were planning to release this base so other devs could use it for their own VN. However, from your post it seems that a part of your work is already merged in the official Rakugo, plus in practice the separation may not be that clear and DD content and your "custom Rakugo" mix up in code. The idea anyway was that if you feel your version is better or has other uses than the official, maybe you could release it as a fork. You say that you had differences in opinion with the maintainer of Rakugo, that's exactly in this kind of situation that forking a project is interesting (see vim and nvim).
Finally, I don't know why I was convinced your school was in the US. I guess the combination of foreign country and firearms did not leave any choice to my imagination. You really got me with the gun eroticism, it's very well said. Maybe the next decade will see you found a privately funded french gunsmithing school forming reknown gunsmiths for the decades to come
Well yeah I started making changes first as DD code. But when I realize that features I needed (like rollback) wasn't going to come from Jeremi, I started rewriting things I didn't liked. So I rewrote everything, as a public fork of Rakugo.
The question of my version becoming a fork or the new version of Rakugo was asked. He chose to accept my vision and design. It is just that he didn't adopted it nor really understood it, I think.
So yeah my version of Rakugo became the version 3.0.0 and I yell at Jeremi pretty much every time he does something. I try to teach him to take his time and think things through before pushing stuff to the "official" repo. But it is a process. Being deliberate in his actions and code is not something he does yet.
As I said he is still in the framework mindset, he put getters and setters just "because" without thinking about it an realizing that they are useless thus being noise.
I'm also trying to make him understand how it is actually an (unpaid/very underpaid) job for me and I won't accept carelessness more akin to a hobby/pet project.
You are absolutely welcome to consider me an asshole. But I consider that a project I spent hundreds of hours fixing and cleaning is owed the respect of not messing it up again.
About the separation between DD and Rakugo. Well that where having clear ideas come in handy. I know what Rakugo should have as a base so anything out of that scope is DD.
Basically, currently if you don't modify the "template" (the base GUI) you can do a VN without much effects, the only one there is a letter by letter typing effect for the text box (that I'm kind of regretting making since it makes the text box code a big blob that looks complicated.
For me if you go for Godot-Rakugo instead of Ren'Py, that means that you want to have more (and better) control on how you set things up. So that you will use Godot's GUI capabilities.
So the template is there to be a simple base with easily readable and understandable code (most of the code of the in game GUI is few functions of couple of lines each). It is there to show you as a user "here is how you can do your own".
The core (the addon itself) is the core, so anything that goes in there is
de facto Rakugo. The core should not contain game logic. By that I mean that it should not influence your game logic more than needed for it to work.
An example of the opposite of this design philosophy would be RPGMaker, you can make a VN out of it but you are not going along the grain.
So thanks to those guidelines it is easy for me to discriminate.
And that's why it clashes a bit with Jeremi as he wants to show how Rakugo can do it all and add every piece of game logic feature people ask for.
It also help that I have been not been working much on the port itself and more on making Rakugo viable for it. Hehe.
So yeah if you want to take a look at Rakugo currently on github the 3.1.0 is basically my version.
