On Feb 19, 2009, at 13:21, Owen Winkler wrote:
> One way I would suggest avoiding this happening is to discuss your
> work
> somewhere before expecting that it's going to be accepted with open
> arms. You're a lot more likely to get traction on your branch ideas
> if
> you get other people to help you build it. Plus, with other people
> helping, your branch code should by necessity be better. There are a
> handful of branches in the repo that I had no idea were there, and
> still
> don't know what the purpose of them is.
This is two-edged. Frequently someone will say on -dev or IRC, I want
to do X, and the response is, well, then, go do it, and we'll see
whether we like it when you're done. As Sean said on IRC, this problem
is 90% social, and only 10% technical.
--
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate,
because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he
can understand.
Bertrand Russell
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