From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 11 18:51: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newman2.bestweb.net (newman2.bestweb.net [209.94.102.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5863337B478 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:16:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from okeeffe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by newman2.bestweb.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 751032310E; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:16:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by okeeffe.bestweb.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id EFAD29F10B; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:11:45 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: gcc3.x issues From: Nat Lanza To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Joe Kelsey , current@freebsd.org Date: 07 Feb 2002 13:30:22 -0500 Message-Id: <20020212021145.EFAD29F10B@okeeffe.bestweb.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 12:59, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > These comments are not useless, most committers have day jobs that > unfortunetly preclude them from having time to work on every little > feature request. Furthermore asking for patches is the exact > opposite of being smug at least in the way of flaunting one's commit > priveledges, it's providing the user an opportunity to present work > for inclusion into the project. Surely you see the difference between "That's an interesting idea; can you generate some patches so we can take a look and see how it works out?" and "WhereTF is your patch to do this?". One provides an opportunity for users to contribute, and the other is a snarling, rude dismissal that really doesn't do very much to encourage people to stick around and help out. --nat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message