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From:
Leon Timmermans
Date:
March 22, 2013 18:40
Subject:
Re: [perl #117245] This is a bug report for perl from artagnon@gmail.com,
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CAHhgV8jQStac0u_R=3=CHLF0XCyAmWRWsYL_9SySma85+MgX1Q@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> First of all, your tone is rather rude. "X annoys me. Fix this." is no
>> way to talk to anyone, specially not when you're asking strangers for
>> their help.
>
> I'm sorry that you've misunderstood, but this is a commit message.
> You should interpret it as instructions to be executed on the codebase
> (like code), not prose intended for other people.  Code and commit
> messages are never rude, condescending, disrespectful, or otherwise:
> they're direct, terse, and precise instructions.

Sorry to misunderstand then.

> Oh, my apologies: don't you have one issue tracker/ mailing list for
> one repository?
>
> Could you direct me on how to instruct perlbug to send the issue to
> the right tracker?

Yeah, this isn't communicated optimally currently (perlbug should say
something about it).

Leon

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