alek blogs

maintainer responsibility

Please don't bother flaming maintainers because your feature hasn't gone in yet. Provide better rationale, yes. Randomly flame about the fact that maintainers have to say "no" a lot, no. Design by committee is far, far worse than rejecting a couple of patches. As Linus says, "If you don't get it, don't bother emailing me."

Special bugzilla rule: if you move a bug from WONTFIX or NOTABUG to REOPENED, you had damn well better add additional, quality rationale at the same time, or prepare to be flamed.

created sat nov 30 2002 7pm cet [2002/11/30 CET] permalink

This blog is about:
XML, Java, and everything else (or nothing ..)

Find more about
blog author

Blogroll:
Sam Ruby
Russell Beattie
Diego Doval
Joel on Software
and some (almost) harmless entertainment: The BileBlog

Projects::
MicroLogger
Xydra
WSIF
XmlPull API
XPP3/MXP1
XSOAP
XMessages

RSS
0.92 [validate]
2.0 [validate]

Filter Entries:
Life
Java
XML
Computing
Web Services