Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 10:46:44 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: CFD: (was [PATCH] Standard indentation of arguments) |
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 08:09:39 -0400 Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:32:06AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:50:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Oh, what a marvellous way to encourage new contributors that was. Thank > > > you so much. > > > > > > For the record: Al speaks only for himself and a lack of expressed > > > disagrement from others should not be taken as agreement. > > > > But I'd like to second the opinion. This is getting a little too far. > > We should rather try to at least enforce very basic standards a lot of > > the crap shoved in doesn't follow instead of wanking around about exact > > placement of whitespaces. > > The real question is whether people who are wanking about whitespace > and spelling fixes in comments will graduate to writing real, useful > patches. If they won't, there's no point to encouraging them. >
Guys, get a clue. It doesn't matter what that person did. It is the effect upon *all* other potential developers which is so damaging here. Not upon this individual.
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