From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:41:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Ensimag students projects, version 2013
Message-ID: <CALkWK0n0w9gB-1=SA4gVBA+coYrXThQrTE28uWpMD=yeB1ph4A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4nf6mjcw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.