https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15402





--- Comment #20 from Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]>  2008-12-27 
23:52:58 UTC ---
To expand a little.  If you want code committed to MediaWiki, you will have to
write it in a form that one or more people with commit access is willing to
review and commit.  If you think the way you're asked to do things is stupid,
that's fine, you have every right to your opinion, but MediaWiki is not a
pluralistic democracy where everyone gets to write code that they personally
think is good.

If you think your code is good and MediaWiki developers think it's bad, you
have two choices.  You can acknowledge that when writing patches for MediaWiki,
it's the MediaWiki developers who have the right to decide what goes into their
project, and write your patches to their standards (however silly you find
them).  Or you can hold your nose up in the air and refuse to do things the way
the people with commit access are asking you to, and then your code won't get
committed.  You've so far chosen the latter path as often as not, and that
simply makes it a waste of time for me to bother reviewing your code.

And regardless of coding standards, being rude to people is a surefire way of
getting them to give up on you.  I know you're a volunteer, but so am I. 
You're under no obligation to write patches, but I'm under no obligation to
review or commit them.  Regardless of any other circumstances, if you don't
even take the basic step of being polite to me, I'm not going to be willing to
review your code, because it's not going to be worth the unpleasantness.


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