Re: Patch: Add support for CVS_USER environment variable

[M . E . O'Neill]

I wrote:
> > If you don't want to accept the patch, it's not a huge loss to me.

... and Derek Price <derek@ximbiot.com> replied:
> Great!  Then you won't mind resubmitting your patch

Interesting logic.  I gave you my patches as-is, in the hope they would 
be useful.  I have zero interest in being a CVS developer.

> so that it only works in pserver mode as you specified

No, I never said my patch was intended for cvs servers running in `cvs 
pserver' mode (which does authentication and knows what the usernames 
are supposed to be).  I said my patch was intended for cvs servers 
running in `cvs server' mode, which always assumes that the username it 
runs as is the correct username for commits.

Moreover, I am not convinced that the illusion of "security" provided 
by limiting this patch to that case is worth anything whatsoever.

Similarly, about my other patch (honoring -q/-Q), Derek wrote:
> would you mind updating the sanity.sh test cases to take account of 
> your changes, possibly answer Mark's other concerns below, and 
> resubmit your patch?

Yes, I would mind.  I'd deleted my copy of the CVS sources before I 
sent my patches.  I'm done.

> and with test cases and documentation, as requested in the HACKING 
> file in the top level of the CVS source distribution!

If I broke cvs hacking etiquette by just sending a patch, my apologies. 
 The message I'm getting here is that because I have neither the time 
nor inclination to act as a champion and maintainer for my patches, I 
shouldn't have bothered sending them in at all.  Perhaps I should just 
submit bug reports and feature requests without any code?

     M.E.O.