On Sun, 08 May 2005 13:46:22 +0000, John J. Lee wrote: > I don't mean to put words into FranÃois' mouth, but IIRC he managed, > for example, GNU tar for some time and, while using some kind of > tracking system "under the covers", didn't impose it on his users. > > IMVHO, that was very nice of him, but I'd be reluctant to attempt to > enforce this way of working on a hard-working and competent > contributor to an open source project to which I'm not a core > contributor myself.
Then I'd honor his consistency of belief, but still consider it impolite in general, as asking someone to do tons of work overall to save you a bit is almost always impolite. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list