On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 22 Jul 2012, at 11:50, Martin Schreiber wrote:
Sorry Michael, I do not trust that the effort is worth the outcome for me.
You're really putting us between a rock and a hard place here. It's quite tempting to
retort with "the next time I'll just commit my changes and tell people to deal with
it, because I do not trust that the effort of discussing them first is worth the outcome
for me".
Of course explaining yourself and discussing costs time, and of course there
are never guarantees about the outcome. That holds for everyone. If you shut
out yourself from the discussion a priori, you basically force the other people
to either
a) be the "bad guys" because they don't take your grievances into account
(mainly because they don't know enough about them to sensibly think about them), or
b) just give up because they don't want to break other people's code like that
And maybe the worst of all: the next time you have a question that requires
thinking or discussing, people may be less inclined to spend effort on that
because you don't return the same courtesy in the opposite situation.
I couldn't have put it better than Jonas and Marco.
I can only repeat: please explain, we'll try to find solutions.
If you don't trust that, there is nothing more to be said. It works both ways.
Michael.
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