Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 May 1999 18:31:29 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [OT] util-linux-2.9p |
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On Sat, 8 May 1999 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>I see. Then it is really necessary to educate you.
If something it's necessary to educate the _maintainers_ to ____always_____ add an email address where to send patches. Otherwise really _don't_ complain about me.
If I don't see such email addresses and I pass the timeout searching for a maintainer/author then I _stop_ being polite. Try to find where to send patches doing a man tunelp or a `tunelp` or whatever. Try and you'll see!!
I completly agree that when I seen Michael's Copyright an email wouldn't be too much wasted time but I was just in the middle of the unpolite path (too late ;).
Just to produce a realted example for fvwm2, some time ago I did some changes on it. But I couldn't find the ftp site or the maintainer or whatever. So I not forwarded my changes to anybody (and really I also stopped using them here, because I reinstalled something and I am been too lazy to recompile fvwm2 ;).
Just to stay in the windows-manager-hack field it happened that I also fixed a bug in WindowMaker and in such case I found the bugreport-form in /usr/doc and in some second now my fix is been merged in the mainstream release. Ask you _why_.
In the fvwm2 case you didn't complained even if I not merged back my work in the mainstream release (that I still don't know where is located). With tunelp instead I made public my work and you now complain. Do you see that it make _no_ sense at all and that the source of the problem is not my unpolite behaviour? My unpolite behaviour is the symptom. Also ask you why I thought there wasn't a maintainer.
First educate the maintainers to put its email address in the manpage (or in the executable) then and only __then__ complain about my education.
I hope this boring discussion will help to achieve the thing.
Andrea Arcangeli
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