Files wrote:
>On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 19:19, Russell Yanofsky wrote:
>
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>>Files wrote:
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>>
>>>...
>>>I haven't seen a lot of *help*. I've seen a lot of *complaints*.
>>>
>>>
>>I think what's happening is that people are trying to help you by
>>complaining. Lots of nitpicking goes on here (and it's not a real surprise
>>
>>
>
>I'm very sorry to hear that.
>
>
There's a very good reason for the nitpicking: we want a consistent
style in the code and change logs so that anyone that's accustomed to
that style can read other people's changes without having to shoehorn
his brain into personal quirks. There are other reasons too, like
avoiding brain overload by keeping the number of list posts and commits
to a reasonable number, minimising the size of diffs, etc.
(Historical note: I shudder to remember the times when I used to
contribute a bit to the Samba project; I had to rebuild my patches
almost from scratch from one micro release to the next, because every
other commit would include a major reformat of the code to what happened
to be the committers preferred style-of-the-day at the time.)
It seems to me that you tend to take constructive criticism as a
personal attack (and it is constructive mostly, and you're getting far
more of it than your share). That's not helping anybody, least of all you.
--
Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Mon Sep 29 02:29:48 2003