From: Felipe Contreras Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:43:01 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] reset: add --quiet option Message-ID: <94a0d4530912031743j360fc891m4093e92ecd9a66d5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7v7ht3zgaz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Felipe Contreras writes: >> Because the less trivial the patches, the less luck I have of getting >> them applied :) > > Well, the name of the game is not "let me have more commits under my name > in a well known project".  It is "let's work together to make the system > better without stepping on each other's toes and without introducing > unintended side effects". Except that different people have different opinions about what's "better", when it's OK to step on somebody else's toes, and what's an important side-effect. > I actually do not think it is the complexity that matters.  It largely > depends on what other patches are in flight that may have interactions, > and if the change is suitable for the phase of the cycle. And whether or not you consider the change desirable at all. -- Felipe Contreras