Tim Ruppert wrote:
> Not trying to - but sorry for the tone if it came across that way Hans.  I'm 
> simply asking why it gets past the committer's desk as "I'm trying to get my 
> people to provide smaller pieces" is an ok way of committing code.  Isn't 
> that the responsibility of the committer to tell the person that's providing 
> the code to go back to the drawing board and break it up?  Isn't that our job 
> as committers?  And as the rest of the committers, isn't it our job to remind 
> the offending committer to spend more time with the person who's providing 
> the code so that we don't have to dig thru this much mess?
> 
> It's not always easy for any of us, but I just don't see this from other 
> people, so I wanted to remind Hans.  If all the other committers think this 
> is ok (which obviously they didn't since Adam brought it up), then I'll 
> happily back off.  Since that's not the case - and this obviously doesn't 
> follow the best practices of the project - please let me know how I should 
> encourage Hans to do what is clearly in our best practices. 
> 
> What should be done is that this mess of a commit should be reverted and put 
> back in in pieces - you have to start somewhere and sometimes it's just not 
> good enough when you have an entire community to just say you're trying hard. 
>  My two cents.

Reverting the commit is wrong.  Just try to be more careful in the future.

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