From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Bader Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:49:31 +0900 Message-ID: References: <419AD153-53B4-4DAB-AF72-4127C17B1CA0@gmail.com> <4A09E719.4090205@gmail.com> <4A0A5BDB.9030602@gmail.com> <43d8ce650905130340q596043d5g45b342b62fe20e8d@mail.gmail.com> <43d8ce650905130341g516c899fsdc6b50a45381d4c6@mail.gmail.com> <76718490905130642h792e9701sf2ec7fbf2e7de96a@mail.gmail.com> <81b0412b0905130644u7e22bde4ta97616a4ed8be1e0@mail.gmail.com> <76718490905130650u4d047e13pa73e0a96289c452a@mail.gmail.com> <43d8ce650905130657q2de9686q683fea84345a6651@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jay Soffian , Alex Riesen , git@vger.kernel.org To: John Tapsell X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 14 03:49:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M4Q52-0008AP-KG for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 03:49:53 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754015AbZENBtk (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 21:49:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752705AbZENBtk (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 21:49:40 -0400 Received: from TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]:41742 "EHLO tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752498AbZENBtj (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 21:49:39 -0400 Received: from relay21.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.50]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n4E1nWbf000120; Thu, 14 May 2009 10:49:32 +0900 (JST) Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay21.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 14 May 2009 10:49:32 +0900 Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.113.70] [10.114.113.70]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 14 May 2009 10:49:32 +0900 Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 9375452E258; Thu, 14 May 2009 10:49:32 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <43d8ce650905130657q2de9686q683fea84345a6651@mail.gmail.com> (John Tapsell's message of "Wed, 13 May 2009 16:57:00 +0300") Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: John Tapsell writes: > I'm as much of an open source developer as anyone else here. I spend > a huge amount of my time programming for KDE. But I've never told a > user "well that settles it" because they won't code it themselves :-/ FWIW, Johannes' use of "Well, that rather settles things, no?" in this thread this didn't strike me as being rude or truly dismissive (even though it's literally so). It seemed more just a timely and to the point reminder that however fun it is to talk about random feature X, someone's gotta do the work if it's going to actually be implemented, and that the direction of git development very much follows the whims of those doing the actual hacking (perhaps more so than other projects). [and I don't even have particularly thick skin, I think -- I'm often very annoyed by brusqueness one sees on many developer mailing lists...] -Miles -- Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.