Re: Is the mailing list search function broken?

> I complained about it one time and was basically told "if the search
> engine is so bad, why don't you help fix it instead of complaining about
> it." I suspect that the lousy search engine problem will exist as long
> as Subversion is hosted on tigris.org. Not much point in complaining
> about it as long as this attitude exists...

But there are two different philosophies in your post: one is jump in
and code (+1) and the other is that inertia is too strong for mere
mortals to overcome (-1).

It's the latter that I was complaining about and that I saw in the
mailing list (and, honestly, manifested through the broken search
engine).

I have little problem backing my words with (action|code). I've learned
from the Jakarta group, though, that I don't want to spent a single
minute coding if I know my patches are going to /dev/null.

You know, Subversion already is facing an uphill battle trying to edge
out CVS because of that same inertia problem. I sure hope it doesn't
fall prey to the same fallacy it's trying to overcome.

  -- /v\atthew

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Received on Wed Dec 29 16:19:28 2004