From: Heikki Orsila Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:46:42 GMT Subject: Re: [msysGit] [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer Message-ID: <20081007074642.GK16289@zakalwe.fi> In-Reply-To: <20081007030824.GW21650@dpotapov.dyndns.org> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 07:08:24AM +0400, Dmitry Potapov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 07:10:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > That changes things. Once some user actually complains, and sends in a > > fix to make the whole dialog optional, I don't see why anybody would ever > > argue against such a patch being accepted. > > First, he did not complain. He did not even mention that in the commit > message. What does that matter? People are complaining now. > He mentioning some other things like removing release notes, > but not the license. Second, I would expect that any change that goes > against the previous achieved agreement may deserve some discussion, > and not blindly accepted just because the user sent a patch. Are you thinking this is some kind of decision by committee organization? NO. Patches are picked up by maintainers. Anyone can comment on the patches as they are published. > Okay, I > don't really care whether the installer shows the license or not... Then why argue about it? I care very much. -- Heikki Orsila heikki.orsila@iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/shd