Date: 07 Feb 2002 13:30:22 -0500 From: Nat Lanza <nlanza@premodern.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc3.x issues Message-ID: <1013106622.34034.6.camel@revelstoke.panasas.com> In-Reply-To: <20020207095912.I3623@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020206160611.B181@dragon.nuxi.com> <200202070053.g170rjQ19592@aldan.algebra.com> <20020206170904.C181@dragon.nuxi.com> <15457.55061.55399.596297@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20020206172554.A1999@dragon.nuxi.com> <15457.56475.172650.789685@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20020206190852.A2932@dragon.nuxi.com> <15458.48143.28786.385095@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20020207095912.I3623@elvis.mu.org>
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On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 12:59, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > These comments are not useless, most committers have day jobs that > unfortunetly preclude them from having time to work on every little > feature request. Furthermore asking for patches is the exact > opposite of being smug at least in the way of flaunting one's commit > priveledges, it's providing the user an opportunity to present work > for inclusion into the project. Surely you see the difference between "That's an interesting idea; can you generate some patches so we can take a look and see how it works out?" and "WhereTF is your patch to do this?". One provides an opportunity for users to contribute, and the other is a snarling, rude dismissal that really doesn't do very much to encourage people to stick around and help out. --nat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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