Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Please consider reverting 7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344 | | From | Johannes Berg <> | | Date | Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:57:03 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 00:47 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > I just think that it's a matter of courtesy that should be independent > > from the release cycle to ask the author/maintainer by default, not as a > > second thought ("unless [...] have other solution"). You can always CC > > Linus and ask him to revert if you don't get a response. > > > > What's wrong with that? It doesn't actually delay the action, but it > > makes the discussion much more friendly and cooperative instead of > > giving the author and maintainer the feeling that their opinion only > > matters as a second thought. > > > > I think you are reading too much into who was addressed directly and who > was "only" CCed...
Maybe. But it seems to be happening pretty often recently that people first ask for a revert and then for a fix, ignoring any thought that might have gone into a particular commit...
> OK, next time (which I hope won't happen :) )
So do I! :)
> I'll just address everyone directly. Will that work?
Much better, at least for me. Hey, I try to respond quickly.
(incidentally, I can't imagine an upstream revert actually helping at all ... that just creates a merge mess)
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