On Thu, 4 May 2017, Ian Jackson wrote: > Stepping back a bit: It is indeed important that our code is easy to > understand and modify, expresses its intent clearly, and helps future > programmers avoid writing bugs. But it is also important that > contributors feel valued, and feel a sense of ownership. > > The amount of emotional discouragement to a contributor does not scale > linearly with the size and apparent importance of the disagreement. > Indeed, turning a tiny issue into a blocker or a big argument can be > especially demotivating. > > I think this case is an example of a situation where we should pay a > small price in code readability to keep a contributor happy. (That > the contributor is also a maintainer doesn't seem to change this > analysis for me.)
Ian, this is very well written, and I completely agree with you. Worthy of a short blog post :-) _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel