Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:01:31 -0400 | From | Chris Shoemaker <> | Subject | Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! |
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 04:57:38PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: >>> history has shown that developers do not stop developing if their patches are >>> not accepted, they just fork and go their own way. >> >> That's mostly when they feel that they are treated unfairly. >> >> OTOH, insisting that your patches should be merged at the same rate that you're >> able to develop them is unreasonable to me. > > it's not nessasarily the individuals that fork, it's the distros who want > to include the fixes and other changes that the individuals that create the > fork.
Is that really bad? Isn't that effectively equivalent to "increased testing of earlier intergrations"?
-chris
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