Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Jeff Garzik
2002-01-30T09:43:26Z

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:38:51AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> Considering how much he's been warned so far about the need for CML2 to
> maintain as much compatability as possible with CML1,

Pardon me while I laugh my ass off.

> behavior as possible in its first version, and not to make intrustive changes
> into the rest of the codebase... I think he expected to be flamed alive if
> he broke up the help file before CML2 went in.

> I.E. There was a miscommunication. (The drop from Linus was an actual
> reject, but without an explanation of why it was rejected the reject didn't
> get resolved. For 33 consecutive versions...)

Getting told something point blank, multiple times, is definitely
-something-. I suppose you could call that miscommunication.

Jeff