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Re: Efforts to attract more users?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Efforts to attract more users? |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:22:28 +0300 |
> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:37:06 -0400
>
> You can look at other people's patches the same way. There is nothing
> wrong, in principle, with cleaning up someone else's patch. It just
> takes work, and it may or may not be the way you want to contribute.
>
> In the end, if a person refuses to reformat or adapt his own patch,
> that doesn't make it impossible for us to use the patch, but does make
> it expensive. Sometimes someone else will decide to do this work for
> him, but usually not. The refusal will surely result in few of his
> patches' being installed, and when they are, it will be at the cost of
> more work for the rest of us. So it will mean he effectively
> contributes much less -- that is why it is unfortunate.
I agree and support everything you say above.
> But we have no reason to treat it as all or nothing.
No such decision was made, definitely not by me. I was just
explaining why things might end up this way even if no such decision
was made.
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