Re: That website

2009-05-25 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2009-05-24, at 15:20, Michael G Schwern wrote: Peter da Silva wrote: Things the Perl community should be embarrassed about: 1. Perl Careful gents, we're straying away from software hate and into straight on trolling. This is supposed to be a safe, welcoming and inclusive community

Re: That website

2009-05-25 Thread Yoz Grahame
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com wrote: You're right, we've already had the Perl thread* and if I was going to do it right I'd be here all day. Sorry. Let's see, have we had one about horrible home-brewed defect tracking systems lately? You'll be here all

Re: Issue trackers (That website)

2009-05-25 Thread Joshua Juran
On May 24, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Yoz Grahame wrote: On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com wrote: Let's see, have we had one about horrible home-brewed defect tracking systems lately? You'll be here all YEAR. I just want one - home-brewed or commercial, I don't care

hates-software

2009-05-25 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
If you're going to accept mail for a list through several alias posting addresses, you should bloody well filter the incoming mail for duplicate message IDs. Sending out two copies of every mail because someone in upthread somehow sent to one address and also CCed the other is, at best, clumsy.

Re: hates-software

2009-05-25 Thread Richard Clamp
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 01:58:57PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: And if you can't do it right, make up your mind and don't accept mail on two addresses. The temptation is always strong to reduce it all the way to zero. -- Richard Clamp richa...@unixbeard.net