Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] SCHED_EDF scheduling class | From | Daniel Walker <> | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:40:23 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 18:06 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:55:39 -0700 > Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> wrote: > > > We did .. It's not my mailer, it's my scripts .. I read a little of > > wikipedia on this and it says it's a MIME encoding.. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable > > > > So it's like a mime encoded patch instead of plain ascii encoded > > patch .. I don't think we should all have to parse this stuff out, we > > should just be getting utf8 encodings which covers everything we use in > > the kernel AFAIK .. > > I have scripts that handle email as well. But I wrote them in a > scripting language which has modules to cope with standard-compliant > email, and I have no trouble with other transfer encodings at all. You > really need to do the same. Better you fix your scripts than > continually demanding that the rest of the development community > conform to your restrictive requirements.
"restrictive requirements" ? I mean don't blame me for that .. It's in Documentation/email-clients.txt .. The selected norm is UTF8 , and I don't disagree with that. After researching it that is what we should be using. At the same time, I'm not demanding anything of anyone , I'm simply asking nicely for the submitter to check what they are doing..
My scripts may not handle it which is fine. I just wouldn't likely end up reviewing it. That really isn't bad for _me_ ..
> Daniel, I believe that you are really trying to help make the kernel > better. But I fear that you may be having the opposite effect by > discouraging contributions from others. Please consider taking a step > back and thinking about your interactions and the nature of your > efforts; I think you may find that there are more productive and > encouraging ways for you to contribute.
I am trying to make the kernel (or community) better, but my motivation is purely my own (as it often is with people on this list) ..
I don't see the effects your indicating, discouraging contributions .. I think if anything I'm helping people to get to a place where they can contribute in a comfortable way without worrying about things like checkpatch .. I think the problem most submitters have on this list is that no one tells them they are doing something wrong so they don't correct it. I clearly recall submitting my first several patches copy-and-pasted which got either ignored , or caused a maintainer lots of pain .. Had I been told earlier that it was a problem I would have corrected it immediately (and been happy to have been notified about it)..
discouraging contributions is more something that happens when you get the responses I got earlier in this thread..
Daniel
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