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From:
Ricardo Signes
Date:
June 8, 2013 02:11
Subject:
Re: I made t/podcheck.t less sensitive and fixed various pod issues
Message ID:
20130608021050.GA18515@cancer.codesimply.com
* Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> [2013-06-07T16:41:49]
> On 05/23/2013 09:32 PM, David Golden wrote:
> >On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Karl Williamson
> ><public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
> >>I object to this being done without adequate discussion on the list.
> >>It's not in keeping as to how this project has operated while I've been
> >>involved, and is contrary to how I would want to have a project operate that
> >>I contribute to.
> >
> >Has the code base been made worse?  No.  In fact I fixed a host of
> >actual known pod issues that had been ignored that no one had bothered
> >to fix.
> 
> The reason not to commit a likely contentious patch without prior
> vetting on p5p, is that it comes across as a power play designed to
> get one's way without regard to any merits.

I was also unhappy with the way this commit was applied, and had specifically
said I wanted prior discussion.

If everybody else wants a development culture in which committers apply
whatever they want, rather than try to figure out what is best, I could work on
my garden instead.

-- 
rjbs

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