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Re: Unattended issues
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Thomas Bushnell BSG |
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Re: Unattended issues |
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:10:20 -0700 |
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Thomas Schwinge <schwinge-lists-gnu.org-bug-hurd@nic-nac-project.de> writes:
> Questions have been asked on this mailing list, for example those whose
> headers I just quoted in my previous message.
> | <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-08/msg00076.html>
This is not a question; it is a libc patch.
> | <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-07/msg00278.html>
I see no question about the Hurd here. What I see is a
feature-extension request for Mach, together with a partial interface
specification.
> | <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-08/msg00065.html>
I see no question here. This is a bug, not a question, and I for one
see no problem with the patch proposed. I am not, however, the one
who checks in changes to the Hurd source these days.
> | <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-08/msg00069.html>
I see no question here. As for the change suggested, I would want to
see some research on how this patch performs in practice.
> <URL:http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2004-12/msg00242.html>
I see no question here. I see a feature extension request for Mach.
So, to sum up, if you have a question about design, ask a question.
Questions are in the interrogative mood, come complete with question
marks, and so forth.
Requests for feature extensions, bug fixes, and the like, are not the
same thing as questions.
>> Specific questions ("why was it designed this way?" "how
>> should that work?") much more frequently get replies.
>
> Hm. Really? Sometimes they do, but often enough they don't.
Please, example?
> Shall it really be common practice that you (the maintainers) have to be
> CCed for every (sensible) question?
> Don't you read the mailing list(s)?
> (Those are questions, not criticisms.)
I do read the mailing lists; I use gnus with sensible
nnmail-split-fancy, so anything CCed to me will simply land in the
same place that it would without.
When I see a patch, I do not answer it if there is no question.
Thomas
Re: Unattended issues, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/08/24
Re: Unattended issues, Thomas Schwinge, 2005/08/27
- Re: Unattended issues, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/08/27
- Re: Unattended issues, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2005/08/27
- Re: Unattended issues, Thomas Schwinge, 2005/08/27
- Re: Unattended issues,
Thomas Bushnell BSG <=
- Re: Unattended issues, Sergio Lopez, 2005/08/27
- Re: Unattended issues, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2005/08/27
- Re: Unattended issues, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/08/28
- Re: Unattended issues, Sergio Lopez, 2005/08/28
- Re: Unattended issues, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2005/08/28
- Re: Unattended issues, Sergio Lopez, 2005/08/28
Re: Unattended issues, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/08/28
Re: Unattended issues, Marco Gerards, 2005/08/27