On Tue, April 25, 2006 3:42 pm, Nathan Bubna said: >> Question: does submitting a patch have to mean having the patch >> accepted? >> At first glance, the obvious answer is yes, but I'm not so sure it's >> really the obvious answer... if someone has submitted a number of >> patches >> that were not committed for reasons other than purely technical (i.e., >> the >> patch will break X), should those patches be considered? > <snip/> > > forgive me for being blunt, but this is nonsense. who wants a > committer whose work breaks X? those patches aren't part of the > "work" of the project. that's a bummer for the submitter, but this is > not about effort or desire or concern or anything other form of > interest in a project. it's about merit. if you don't have it, then > you are s.o.l. Oh, and if you do have it but insist on changing this > to be more about "interest" than "merit" (i.e. you don't "get it"), > then you should not be the least surprised when you find a lot of > resistance. :)
I think you may have misunderstood... someone who's code breaks X SHOULD NOT be considered. I didn't say otherwise :) As for interest vs. merit, I don't at all disagree... merit is what counts. My only point would be that what constitutes "merit" may not be, or maybe should not be, as simple as "how many accepted patches has this person put forward". Ted hinted at that with his commented about the Wiki being considered. I agree that code trumps all else, as it should be, but should that be the *only* consideration? Well, in any case, you raise a good point about the proposal maybe being more of a paradigm shift than I thought. I may have miscalculated that. You also raise some other fair points above I think about being a fundamental change in what community is. I sincerely thank everyone that commented, I appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedules to at least consider the proposal. I won't push it any further, being heard and considered is all I could have expected. Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
