On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org> wrote:
> Two hours with a wrong (R) if it is wrong won't invalidate anything. There is 
> room for a mistake. Please just disagree and let me be responsible enough to 
> make an adjustment.
>
> If I had not responded in a few hours then what you did is ok. My point is 
> about letting time pass.
>

Dave, you did not respond in two weeks to the Bugzilla issue where I
made the same objection.

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121624

Sorry if if I did not sit around for 2 hours on my Friday evening to
see if you were paying attention.

Could communications have been better on this?  Yes, certainly.  But
the important thing is we've now escalated this to get a definitive
answer.

-Rob

> You do a lot for OpenOffice and that is great!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 2, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Rob Weir <rabas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 1, 2013, at 11:01 PM, Tim Williams <william...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 1, 2013, at 3:46 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> -1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've reverted that commit.  Getting this wrong could have serious
>>>>>> repercussions, so let's make sure we get it right.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not exactly. You left the link which was the main thing I wanted to add! 
>>>>> A full revert would have been anti-social. The sociable thing is to ask 
>>>>> the committer to do it. It's their commit and we are all in this 
>>>>> together. OK.
>>>>
>>>> IMHO, the sociable thing is not to feel such exclusive ownership over
>>>> one's commit that one would be offended if someone else reverted it
>>>> because they thought it was harmful.  We are all in this together,
>>>> right?
>>>
>>> Nope.  It's universally uncool to revert someone else's commit.  You
>>> raised the -1, let *them* do the revert, after you've provided
>>> convincing rationale to the community...
>>
>> Then count me uncool then. I did it and I'd do it again in similar
>> circumstances.  It is easier to apologize to David later If I'm wrong
>> then for us to have the trademark legally invalidated if I was right
>> and did not act quickly.
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>>>
>>> --tim

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