On 22 Jul 2012, at 11:50, Martin Schreiber wrote:

> Sorry Michael, I do not trust that the effort is worth the outcome for me.

You're really putting us between a rock and a hard place here. It's quite 
tempting to retort with "the next time I'll just commit my changes and tell 
people to deal with it, because I do not trust that the effort of discussing 
them first is worth the outcome for me".

Of course explaining yourself and discussing costs time, and of course there 
are never guarantees about the outcome. That holds for everyone. If you shut 
out yourself from the discussion a priori, you basically force the other people 
to either
a) be the "bad guys" because they don't take your grievances into account 
(mainly because they don't know enough about them to sensibly think about 
them), or
b) just give up because they don't want to break other people's code like that

And maybe the worst of all: the next time you have a question that requires 
thinking or discussing, people may be less inclined to spend effort on that 
because you don't return the same courtesy in the opposite situation.


Jonas
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