Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com>:
> Seems sensible, but I don't know what "rejection" would actually mean.
Why is this mysterious? We reject a patch when we don't choose to merge it.
> My "extensions" are on the way to the contrib area. Is the contrib
> area supposed to have different rules? I don't know.
I don't have a strong opinion about this. I lean towards looser rules
for contrib because, among other things, it's a place for experiments
and we disclaim responsibility for maintaining it. But requiring 2.6
compatibility for Python scripts is not really onerous.
> Too late.
I'd be happy to help you out by auditing them for version dependencies.
> I don't see what this means in practical terms. People are going to
> write code in whatever language they want to write code in. How
> exactly are "we" going to "encourage" them not to do that is not
> entirely clear to me.
One way is by having clear guidelines for good practice that *include*
Python, and tell people exactly what the requirements are.
> Subcommands are also probably more efficient in c. And lets remember
> that most people use git through the *official* subcommands.
See my remarks on the 80-20 rule elsewhere in the thread. Execessive
worship of "efficiency" is a great way to waste effort and pile up
hidden costs in maintainance problems.
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