On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Andrew Garrett <agarr...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: >> This is really unnecessary and unhelpful on a public mailing list. I >> think we'd all be better off if snark like this were kept to private >> channels. > > Agreed. Or better yet, not said at all. Since we evidently no longer > have a benevolent dictator whose word we all accept without question, > we need to work amicably to resolve disputes, and getting into fights > about <1% size savings vs. dubious increases in readability is really > not useful. At least get into fights about something *significant*. >
I agree. Talk about the code, not the committer. But I really don't think we need a benevolent dictator. Brion never really had to step in and play traffic cop; we've all gotten along and worked well over the years without generally needing one and I see no reason why that needs to change now. And yes, I think we should keep the arguments confined to major things. Ok everyone stop for a second. We're arguing about a few lines of vertical whitespace. Full stop. Lets argue about complex architecture changes or something else worthwhile. It's really not worth it to waste so many bytes (and my e-mail now just adds to the pile, I know) over something so incredibly trivial. Back to the subject at hand... While I happen to think the licensing issue is rather bogus and doesn't really affect us, I'm glad to see it resolved. It outperforms our current solution and keeps the same behavior. Plus as a bonus, the vertical line smushing is configurable so if we want to argue about \n a year from now, we can :) -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
