On 08-Jan-05, 15:08 (CST), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this really called for in changelogs? Note that the bug reports were > perfectly polite.
Not really called for, but I understand the frustration with people who have nothing better to do than nag, and (for the second bug) without even checking the existing bugs! > Imagining myself as a student in this class: I complete the requested > assignment, with luck make an A, only to have the prof post it to the > internet and then be insulted by perfect strangers as they use my work > to fix their problems. These would be the same students who didn't even have the minimum decency to attempt to notify the upstream authors before publishing the bugs? I think taking a dig at them in the changelog is the *least* anyone should do. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net