On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 12:41 PM Nicolas Mailhot via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Le dimanche 05 juillet 2020 à 12:21 -0600, Chris Murphy a écrit : > > > > specification != standard > > I, for one, am very happy that the systemd project makes the effort of > documenting its formats so others can write competing implementations > or write software that interacts with the systemd implementation. > > That’s several orders of magnitude better than the usual my code is the > best, copy whatever undocumented thing I did by accident in my last > commit, this is the reference implementation, I won’t commit to > anything and I will change it at will without notification in the > future. > > Thank you Lennart for understanding what we meant when we asked you to > engage with standards like the FHS years ago, and for not embarking > upon blackbox unspecified coding. > > We all hate writing documentation and formal specifications are among > the most exhausting documentation one may write. > > And, nothing wrong with writing a spec for things not specified yet, > quite the countrary.
Agreed. This is a better response. Thanks Lennart! -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
