On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:52:49PM -0700, chromatic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I do NOT want to see that sort of thing as patches to Test::Harness.
> I have a few ideas myself on how to make T::H a little more clean and > useful, but I'd have to do some refactorings myself on a private fork to > see how well they look in practice. And I'm OK with that. I just want, and I suspect 99% of any authors want, to have people work WITH me. "Hey, Andy, I've got some ideas on X, are you interested? Is this something you're looking at exploring?" Sure, working code is good, but the author also runs the risk of sending stuff that is less likely of being accepted. That's not much of a risk, though, and the time lost would likely be small. The real issue is that, if Shlomi had come to me and discussed the issues rather than "I want to fork Test::Harness", we could have worked together. Instead, it's "I want color-coding of tests, and T::H doesn't do what I want, so I'm gonna go fork it, OK?" http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/4799 xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance
