From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 7 10:30:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from revelstoke.panasas.com (gw2.panasas.com [65.194.124.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B2237B43E for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:30:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nlanza@localhost) by revelstoke.panasas.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g17IUMk34802; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:30:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nlanza@premodern.org) X-Authentication-Warning: revelstoke.panasas.com: nlanza set sender to nlanza@premodern.org using -f Subject: Re: gcc3.x issues From: Nat Lanza To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Joe Kelsey , current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020207095912.I3623@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020206160611.B181@dragon.nuxi.com> <200202070053.g170rjQ19592@aldan.algebra.com> <20020206170904.C181@dragon.nuxi.com> <15457.55061.55399.596297@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20020206172554.A1999@dragon.nuxi.com> <15457.56475.172650.789685@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20020206190852.A2932@dragon.nuxi.com> <15458.48143.28786.385095@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20020207095912.I3623@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.1 Date: 07 Feb 2002 13:30:22 -0500 Message-Id: <1013106622.34034.6.camel@revelstoke.panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 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