Jeremy Bowers wrote: > Then I'd honor his consistency of belief, but still consider it impolite > in general, as asking someone to do tons of work overall to save you a bit > is almost always impolite.
This is not what he did, though - he did not break "the protocol" by sending in patches by email (which indeed we would reject). Instead, he said (before) that he cannot contribute because he is unwilling to/incapable of using a bug tracker. This is an acceptable position: contributors are volunteers, and he choses not to volunteer. He then has to accept (in the specific case) that the documentation is imprecise/incomplete. More precisely, he is correct that *his* contribution is not welcome, contrary to my broad statement "contributions are welcome". The more narrower statement "contributions that follow the guidelines are welcome" still stands. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
