On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:16:41PM +, David Holland wrote:
> The most important lesson to learn in software is that it's ok to be
> wrong and that when you are wrong, the sooner someone notices the
> better. We all make mistakes; we all make lots of mistakes, all the
> time. (Writing this post
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:13:15AM +0100, haad wrote:
> We need some proper way how to evaluate changes, discussion about them
> is clearly not good way. Because most of best developers are not
> talking in those never ending mail threads. In practice most active
> never ending mail writers co
On 01/19/2011 03:13, haad wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Alan Barrett wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:34:23AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
Why was this removed when there was an active discussion about removing
it where no concensus was reac
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:20:40PM +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> Being naive as I am, I believe a software project can adopt healthier and
> more productive "software engineering" practices.
If you want to change established procedures, change them first.
Do not explicitly violate them and hope f
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:13:15AM +0100, haad wrote:
> Truly I haven't seen any discussion which had more than 10mails where
> clear consensus was made. Thats not going to happen.
It is possible and it has happened. IMHO it clearly depends on the
quality of the original proposal/question.
In thi
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:31:27AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> I don't care much about /usr/share/misc/operator, but I do care about
> people making changes without discussion, or making changes with too
> little discussion, or making changes that go against the consensus of
> the discussion.
For
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:34:23AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
>> > Why was this removed when there was an active discussion about removing
>> > it where no concensus was reached? This sort of thin
