From: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
To: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [msysGit] [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:46:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081007074642.GK16289@zakalwe.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081007030824.GW21650@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 07:08:24AM +0400, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:10:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > That changes things. Once some user actually complains, and sends in a
> > fix to make the whole dialog optional, I don't see why anybody would ever
> > argue against such a patch being accepted.
>
> First, he did not complain. He did not even mention that in the commit
> message.
What does that matter? People are complaining now.
> He mentioning some other things like removing release notes,
> but not the license. Second, I would expect that any change that goes
> against the previous achieved agreement may deserve some discussion,
> and not blindly accepted just because the user sent a patch.
Are you thinking this is some kind of decision by committee
organization? NO. Patches are picked up by maintainers. Anyone can
comment on the patches as they are published.
> Okay, I
> don't really care whether the installer shows the license or not...
Then why argue about it? I care very much.
--
Heikki Orsila
heikki.orsila@iki.fi
http://www.iki.fi/shd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-07 7:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 12:27 [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer Petr Baudis
2008-10-06 14:22 ` [msysGit] " Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-06 14:18 ` Petr Baudis
2008-10-06 15:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-06 16:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-06 16:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-06 17:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-06 17:51 ` Bruce Stephens
2008-10-06 17:54 ` Robin Burchell
2008-10-06 18:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-06 19:47 ` [msysGit] " Linus Torvalds
2008-10-07 1:53 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-10-07 2:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-07 3:08 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-10-07 7:46 ` Heikki Orsila [this message]
2008-10-07 9:28 ` [msysGit] " Petr Baudis
2008-10-08 7:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-06 20:11 ` [msysGit] " Heikki Orsila
2008-10-07 1:59 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-10-07 2:40 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-10-07 7:42 ` Heikki Orsila
2008-10-06 21:19 ` Abdelrazak Younes
2008-10-06 17:23 ` Petr Baudis
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