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Re: Ensimag students projects, version 2013

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2013, 20:41 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> 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.

And sorry about the huge misunderstanding. I thought Matthieu was saying that the proposed configuration variable would be harmful to newcomers, and we should therefore not add it.

I feel very silly about having written such a long response to something I misunderstood.

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  1. Matthieu MoyApr 14, 2013
  2. Ping YinApr 15, 2013
  3. Matthieu MoyApr 15, 2013
  4. Thomas RastApr 15, 2013
  5. Matthieu MoyApr 15, 2013
  6. John KeepingApr 15, 2013
  7. Jeff KingApr 15, 2013
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2013
  9. Jeff KingApr 16, 2013
  10. Duy NguyenApr 15, 2013
  11. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 15, 2013
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 15, 2013
  13. Matthieu MoyApr 15, 2013
  14. Jeff KingApr 16, 2013
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  16. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 16, 2013
  17. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 16, 2013
  18. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2013
  19. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 16, 2013
  20. Ramkumar RamachandraApr 16, 2013
  21. Phil HordApr 16, 2013

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