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On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:59 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote: |
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> On 14/05/16 17:53, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: |
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>> Gordon Pettey schrieb: |
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>>> So, it's perfectly okay to make direct commits of obviously broken |
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>>> code that |
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>>> has no chance of working, because community something mumble... |
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>> You may have missed some sarcasm in the post which you replied to. |
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>> Plus, I don't think anybody said or implied that committing broken |
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>> things is ok. |
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>> Best regards, |
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>> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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> I think the time is coming, given the diversity of members of this list, |
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> to add <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags when we are not describing something |
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> literally. It becomes very difficult to follow the thread of |
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> conversation when people are (not) communicating their true thoughts!! |
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While this is certainly sensible, the irony here is that this whole |
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discussion was started by somebody making a sarcastic remark when |
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simply pointing out a mistake would have been just as functional. |
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Nobody thinks it is ok to commit broken code. What it seems like |
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we'll be debating until there is only one of us left is how |
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unprofessional we should be when pointing that out. |
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