2009/6/25 Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto(a)gmail.com>om>:
I don't write comments about SVN commits anymore
because I am tired of
getting ignored and of people that doesn't read the mailing-list (and
not only) and have commit access. I have major open source projects for
wasting my time.
Have I ever ignored a comment from you that was directly addressed to
me? I don't think so.
Anyway, what's wrong with my commit? I don't really see the issue here.
* Some people don't reply to your comments because they are not
comfortable enough in English to do so. I can understand them.
* Some people don't reply to your comments because of the tone you
use. Indeed, there are times where you could have been more pedagogic.
I can understand them.
I personally don't see how emitting remarks is a loss of time. The
more we are... the better we should perform.
As a generic remark, I think that you could probably help more here,
if you were committing the changes you were suggesting: after a few
days, if the original committer does not commit back fixing the
problems you mentioned, you should grad your keyboard, and
fixityourself(). My opinion is that the more people see your code
cleanup/standardization efforts, the more they will be sensible to
your remarks, and the more they will pay attention to generic
guidelines before pushing new code.
But of course, it's only my own POV.
But sure, if you feel like you're wasting your time, please invest
your time elsewhere. Open Source is "for fun"; if you don't enjoy
being around anymore, please try to use your talents in another
community, there's no point in sticking around in a frustrated manner
:)
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Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ [ nɪk.d̪ymz ]