Curt,
Curtis Olson wrote:
> Wild fires are a newly added feature to CVS, the table is wide open for
> discussion if anyone cares to discuss the issue. Let's not bring our pet
> peaves into the discussion, that only obfuscates the real issues.
What you are trivializing by calling it our pet peeve is probably the
most severe nuisance to the entire project and pretty much on-topic
here:
People of whom at least one has a strong record of caring _very_ little
(almost nothing) about other developers' opinions, are adding features
to FlightGear as a system default, even if such feature is highly
debatable (how many aircraft crashes do actually result in a wildfire ?)
At the same time they are (he is) using strong words against other
(aircraft) developers if these consider the respective feature to be a
silly one and therefore decide to work around it - as a 'default' for
their aircraft.
If you expect Gerard to remove his workaround from the F-8E then you
should, at the same time, expect Melchior to apply some care when he
chooses his words. If Melchior would care, he could probably have
started a conversation about wether Gerard's approach is really the
best one to take .... well, you've read yourself many times which
approach Melchior considers to be the "right" one to clean up "design
issues".
No, Curt, letting Melchior feel like having a carte blanche to violate
almost every rule of polite interaction on this list is certainly not
the best way to promote the adoption of 'rules' in this project.
Cheers,
Martin.
--
Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
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