Subject: Re: dependencies showing up twice
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/21/2007 11:47:44
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:42:41AM +0200, Dieter Baron wrote:
>   What I am criticizing is your style of communication.  ``Don't do
> that, I plan to change that area anyway'' is not very infromative for
> someone not familiar with your plans.  And being familiar with your
> plans is hard to acomplish, given the lack of design proposal and
> documentation your projects exhibit.

It wasn't meant that way. It was meant as "I don't think it is a good
idea and the reason why you want to change it will go away".

>   Just saying ``don't change, it'll go away'' might be acceptable if
> your changes went in during the next week.  But, understandbly, your
> projects take longer than that.  So you can't expect others to hold
> off development waiting for them.

Maybe not the next week. But I'm cleaning up some of the loose ends now,
will fix some ancient bugs in preparation and want to get over it RSN.

Joerg