From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 20:18:12 -0800 From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> In-Reply-To: <1231117315.11463.303.camel@goose.sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] RFNOMNT Topicbox-Message-UUID: 79505aae-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i understood what Russ said to mean: patches -- for enhancements that "might" someday have a use or fixes that remove some perceived shortcoming lacking an actual need -- are scary. > On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 23:08 -0800, Russ Cox wrote: >> The "let's submit a patch and fix it" talk is scary. > > Russ, with all due respect, life gets unnecessarily complicated > when on one hand whenever I suggest something for discussion > there's always a member of this list (you included) who asks > me to show the code. But on the other hand, the comments like > the above tend to suggest that such code would be written in vain > anyway(*) > > It especially confusing when one doesn't even know who is in > charge of reviewing officially submitted patches. If you are > among reviewers the statements along the lines of "patches > are scary" are quite scary. > > Thanks, > Roman. > > (*) with a sole exception of people who maintain their own > Plan9 codebase