Re: [PATCH 0/1] Update imap-send.c, fix incompatibilities with OpenSSL 1.1.x

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 7, 2020, 19:57 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq7e2359an.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2001071944250.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> I am afraid that I do not know of any means to teach GitGitGadget to make
> that call whether it has seen a consensus.
>
> And I fear that you are asking me to punt back that decision to
> contributors, i.e. put a lot of the burden of knowing how Git
> contributions are expected to progress _away_ from GitGitGadget.

Yes, and that is why I am giving review comments to contributors to teach how the development community works.

> Of course, I can teach GitGitGadget to not Cc: you. Like, always. Not sure
> that you would like that any better because you would not even be Cc:ed
> once consensus was reached.

That would actually be better. Somebody in the discussion thread would probably say "This is good enough---send it to the maintainer" when the topic is ready.