Re: What do you Hate about Subversion?

On Jan 17, 2007, at 16:54, Daniel Noll wrote:

> The only thing I hate is how reporting a bug requires that someone
> else confirm that it's a bug first... so you sit around for days
> waiting for someone to reply to a mailing list post while you're
> completely unable to update the local checkout from the repository.

This is necessary, because otherwise the developers would spend far
more time closing invalid bugs. People would submit bug reports for
problems which are already known, and people would submit bug reports
for things that are not bugs, but are rather their own
misunderstandings of how Subversion is designed to function. We have
had several examples of this in just the past week on this list.

> (That, and how Reply somehow goes to the user who made the post,
> instead of the list... but that's a timeless religious debate.)

That is the only way an RFC-compliant list can function. The debate
is over. Please read:

http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html

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