On Tuesday 17 May 2005 18.00, Joey Hess wrote: > Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > If I were to receive a bug report, say wishlist severity, containing a > > patch that rewrites one of my packages' debian/rules to use debhelper, > > I would be very upset: it would feel like an insult toward my style of > > packaging. > > You need to grow a thicker skin. By your reasoning, any substantial > patch or code review is a personal attack; that is not an attitude that > is conducive to evolving good code.
Disagree. Most contributions that do seriously improve the code in question will very likely be at least looked at. A "contribution" that just proposes to replace code with other code that does essentially the same, but using a totally different toolset, without clear benefits, will likely be wasted effort and can - understandably, imho - produce reactions that range from ridicule to insult. cheers -- vbi -- featured product: Debian GNU/Linux - http://debian.org
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