Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 14, 2007, 02:06 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710140304430.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710131810550.6887@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > My main point is -- and always was -- that I'd like people to realise 
> > how much it depends on _them_ if (and when) their wishes come true.
> 
> Dscho, that's just not fair.
> 
> The fact is, stating what you wish for *is* taking an action. Starting 
> to complain about people stating their wishes (which you have done 
> several times) is simply unreasonable.

Well, maybe I overreacted.

> You don't have to *do* what they wish for, but I really wish you stopped 
> complaining about people bringing up their hopes for improvement.

Fair enough, I'll shut up about these issues.

At least as long as I can hold my breath ;-)

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> Complain about it when somebody asks for something *stupid*. Explain why 
> it would be wrong to do something like that. But don't complain about 
> people having wish-lists, even if those people may not work on them.
> 
> Not everybody is a "doer". It's important to get input from people who are 
> just plain users, or hope to be.

A pity, but you're probably right.

Ciao, Dscho