On 24/10/2014 21:17, Oliver Heger wrote: > > > Am 24.10.2014 um 22:01 schrieb Gary Gregory: >> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Oliver Heger <oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Am 23.10.2014 um 22:58 schrieb Gary Gregory: >>>> Patches go stale no matter what... >>> >>> Right, this can happen during normal development, but not necessarily >>> because of a big bang change for which there is no technical reason, but >>> which is just a matter of personal taste. >>> >> >> I call it a technical reason, you call it personal taste, we are not going >> to agree. > > Obviously not. So how do we proceed?
You work it out until a consensus is reached and then that consensus is implemented. The more entrenched folks are in their positions, the longer consensus is going to take. (And no, a VOTE is not the right way to resolve this.) My own view is that the addition of the final keywords does have technical merit. Not enough to make me want to spend the time to fix the projects I work on, but I wouldn't complain if someone else wanted to make all the necessary changes. Similarly while I think it would be a shame to throw away all this good work, I could live with that option if that was the consensus opinion. The issue of out-dated patches is a red herring. That is a separate problem. The community needs to apply / review patches faster. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
