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Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.23
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.23 |
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Wed, 28 Apr 1999 05:12:48 -0400 (EDT) |
> Philip Webb wrote:
>
> > (2) TD should not revise in any significant manner someone else's patch
> > without submitting his version to the list for everyone's comment.
>
> Sorry, this is ludicrously wrong. The ability and willingness to modify
> (for the better) submitted patches is one of the very core capabilities
> of a good development coordinator. Tom does a very good job of this and
> I hope he will not take any mind at all of your unilateral declaration
> to the contrary.
>
> Implementing what you suggest would bog the entire development process
> down into an endless series of "committee" arguments, similar to this
> long pointless thread about which URL to make the default. I suspect
> that after a bit more of that, most of the core developers would stop
> participating.
The development patches are for everyone's comment; though of course if
no new issues are raised, I just move on to new ones.
> >Bela<
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Thomas E. Dickey
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- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.23, (continued)
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.23, dickey, 1999/04/23
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.23, dickey, 1999/04/23
- lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.23, Philip Webb, 1999/04/27
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.23, Henry Nelson, 1999/04/27
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.23, dickey, 1999/04/27
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.23, Bela Lubkin, 1999/04/28
- Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.23,
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