Re: Maintainers and contributors

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 10/22/2015 02:55 PM, Artur Malabarba wrote:

> The problem is that too often these conversations rotate around the
> same point without going anywhere. This message would be a way to make
> sure the conversation is progressing, and not an attempt to put a full
> stop on it (I see the previous version didn't communicate this well).
> Note that this would only be done if the same point has already gone
> back and forth twice.

I don't think number 4 would have helped in the latest incident. If the 
submitter is dead-set on an idea and doesn't want to heed, "we all agree 
on disagreeing with you" would probably spark the same reactions that 
we've already seen. The reviewers are tyrants, the mailing list has 
problems and needs a psychologist.

So I rather also put a nice list of rules somewhere that makes it clear 
that at some point you listen to the reviewers, or go away. Maybe with a 
nice of explanation of why that's important.

The amount of time wasted on that recent thread has been staggering.