On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 10:18:11AM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> 

> Yes, there are discussions now, but some days ago there was some bug ping
> pong (IIRC between you, Enrico and Uwe, but I may be wrong).

Please don't bring me in there ;-)

> For me real
> communication looks like this:
> 
> 1) Developer X sends a patch and explains what it is doing
> 2) Developer Y finds a problem and possibly presents a solution
> 3) Developer X confirms that the solution still fixes the original problem,
> or presents one himself, or has still some questions.
> 
> 2) and 3) could be repeated a few times, but in the end both X and Y
> understand the whole problem, and not only parts of it.
> 
> I believe that this is the case now for the delimiters case, but what
> happens currently very often is "first commit, then think". This is what I
> call playing bug ping pong (you fix one bug by introducing another),
> especially since the commit messages are often too short and do not explain
> the changes, so it is very difficult for others to follow.

I totally agree with you here.

-- 
Enrico

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