Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2021, #06; Thu, 17)

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 19, 2021, 07:18 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmtrmjpa8.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <YMvofq5aSryQzpZQ@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> Hmm. I'm not sure if that's a good resolution here. I do think many
> people were positive in moving in that direction. If there's a
> contributor that people have trouble working with, I'm OK giving up on
> possible contributions they could make, even adaptations of their work.
>
> But if by working in an area they poison it for others (because there's
> no desire to work with them, but no desire to step on their toes) that
> doesn't seem like a workable long-term strategy.

You may lick a corner of a piece of cake and think that it would repel other people enough to leave only you to consider eating it, but no, in this project, you aren't allowed to lick a Makefile and claim that you own it. Also, if some contributors get too annoying to be worth our time interacting with, it is OK to ignore them.

> I don't think this topic is particularly urgent, so I'm OK to drop it
> for now (and as always, it's your choice what you work on). But I'm
> worried about the general precedent / principle.