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Subject: Re: Policy for removing working code
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on 08/09/2010 17:01 Vadim Goncharov said the following:
> Big thanks for your work, but unfortunately, the problem itself is not ISDN or
> network stack, it is deeper. It is the policy or may be style of thought,
> discourse. Something like:
>    progress dictates we need fix/maintainership to feature X
>  & we have no resources to maintain feature X
> -> we announce theis need, but only to _limited_ audience, not wide circles
> -> nobody responds
> -> the X code is removed
> AND we think this logic chain is correct, thought we did not things this way
> even 5 years ago.

So, get to work, become a committer, get elected to core and have a control over
these procedures.  [And maybe your perspectives will change along the way]
Until then, please, let's stop wasting time on this issue.

-- 
Andriy Gapon