Follow-up Comment #5, bug #65601 (group groff):
> It would help if you didn't assume autocratic motives behind my code changes. But I'm unsure how to achieve that. By autocratic I am simply meaning that you seem to assume that your ideas are automatically better than your inferiors. In this bug for example, I initially gave you a one liner which illustrated the problem:- xzcat /usr/share/man/man7/iso_8859-6.7.xz |preconv|nroff -Tutf8 -man -t -z Then, over 2 weeks later, you post more than 1200 words, essentially defending your change. What am I to think? You know that if you "snow" me under with words I will either give up or make myself ill trying to answer all your points. I know you are not stupid so you must have run the example and seen the errors it produced, but your reply was "no I am right to make this change". I hope you see my point that this behaviour seems autocratic. I had to simplify the one liner for you to see the issue, but you then insist that what you did was correct in some way, but you would undo it anyway. Unfortunately, there are other examples of autocratic behaviour. How about taking advantage of my sabbatical to introduce a change to pdf.tmac which not only had bugs in it, but caused one job to go from a few seconds to 13 minutes. A reasonable person would consult the author of pdf.tmac after his sabbatical, an autocrat would just go and do it. Even something as innocuous as spacewidth in afmtodit yields examples. Rather than something like "I agree with Deri" or "Deri is correct", we see "Looks like Deri is right", which could be construed as adding an element of surprise! And, I agree, I am skating on thin ice here, because we are considering autocratic behaviour, and mere words add nought, to the scales, it just may be indicative of the mind set which accompanies autocratic behaviour. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65601> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/