i understood what Russ said to mean: patches -- for enhancements that "might" someday have a use or fixes that remove some perceived shortcoming lacking an actual need -- are scary.
> On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 23:08 -0800, Russ Cox wrote: >> The "let's submit a patch and fix it" talk is scary. > > Russ, with all due respect, life gets unnecessarily complicated > when on one hand whenever I suggest something for discussion > there's always a member of this list (you included) who asks > me to show the code. But on the other hand, the comments like > the above tend to suggest that such code would be written in vain > anyway(*) > > It especially confusing when one doesn't even know who is in > charge of reviewing officially submitted patches. If you are > among reviewers the statements along the lines of "patches > are scary" are quite scary. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > (*) with a sole exception of people who maintain their own > Plan9 codebase
