--On Sunday, July 26, 2009 10:03:51 PM -0400 "Matt W. Benjamin" <[email protected]> wrote:

"I would prefer that you didn't submit this" seems iffy also, as -1 could
as easily mean, resubmit this.  I.e., it's easy to interpret 'this' as
the idea underlying some submission, not the changeset.

The language is a little broken, because it's based on a slightly different model. That's not bad English for "I would prefer you hadn't submitted this (to gerrit)"; it's supposed to be saying "I would prefer you didn't submit this (to the real repository).

Perhaps it would be better if it said something like "I would prefer this not be integrated in its current form."

However, note that it is perfectly valid to give a -1 to a change that implements a feature you don't approve of and which was never discussed on this mailing list. IMHO, it's reasonable to submit patches directly to gerrit that fix genuine bugs or eliminate warnings or make the code more closely comply with OpenAFS's coding style, but new features should be discussed here first.

-- Jeff
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