From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:16:31 GMT Subject: Re: Ensimag students projects, version 2013 Message-ID: <7v4nf6mjcw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Ramkumar Ramachandra writes: > Matthieu Moy wrote: >> I tend to agree with you, but the idea has explicitly been rejected in >> the past. The problem with an option like this is that it would also >> disable the advices that may be added in the future. By letting people >> disable the advices one by one, people see new advices as they arrive. >> You may think of it like "do not show this message again" tickboxes in >> some graphical user interfaces. >> >> Too controversial area for newcommers I guess ;-). > > This is the kind of nonsense that I absolutely won't stand for. Am I > a less important customer than a newcomer? Who said anything about a customer? A newcomer to a community (i.e. Matthieu's student) needs not just to show technical excellence with patches, but needs to make a good argument on a larger design decision; old timers already tried to achieve a concensus on it, and did not manage to do so the last time we tried. It is a tough topic for a newcomer developer to tackle.