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On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:29:12PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:07:12 -0400 Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu> |
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> wrote: |
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> | Then I suggest you file this e-mail away and when the time comes that |
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> | the code is to be merged and it sucks ( and by sucks I mean more than |
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> | "it doesn't meet Ciaran's software engineering standards" ) you can |
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> | waive the mail in everyone's face. No project, specs or not, is ever |
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> | written right the first time. At the very least someone can take his |
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> | code and improve on it in the future. |
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> Yeah, right, because saying "I told you so" after the shit hits the fan |
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> is ever so helpful. Right. |
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What's stated above, and what this thread has come down to is that |
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you're putting a lot of reqs and pointing at whatever roadblock you |
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can for anyone who attempts it. Kudos, although bluntly, talk is |
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cheap. |
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You're not chipping in any way, you're fitting the exact definition of |
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drobbin's "freak" |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/making-the-distro-p1.xml |
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in how you're interacting with those attempting to pull this off (and |
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I'm not even remotely commenting on your flaming of those merely |
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asking questions). |
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Produce a patch and maybe people will listen to you, otherwise those |
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of us who are tired of listening to others state how it should be done |
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(but do nothing but talk), are going to jump in and do it, addressing |
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the issues thus pointed out. |
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In other words, their really is no point in debating people attempting |
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it. They're going too, and as I made pretty bluntly clear, the only say |
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you've got on this is as a member of the dev community when/if they |
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push for it to go mainline. |
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Kind of hard to block it when nothing has been produced after all. |
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Regardless, this list doesn't have flamewars, and I'd thank |
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all participants to kindly back off (and yes, I'm being a damn |
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hypocrite in stating it). |
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If people are up for the continuing pissing match, take it private. |
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~harring |
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