[scribus-dev] correction needed recent commit r19543

Craig Bradney cbradney at scribus.info
Tue Sep 30 20:18:30 UTC 2014


On 30/09/2014 8:57 pm, Kunda Loves Scribus wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:46 AM, "Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de
> <mailto:christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>> wrote:
> 
>      
>     And? Neither the bugtracker nor the commit list need to follow the rules of bureaucracy.
>     Moreover, the developer mailing list and Mantis do record any changes reliably (let alone svn).
>     Please don't try to turn Scribus into the equivalent of a public agency with obligatory,
>     voluminous and unnecessary paper trails.
>      
>     You can be pedantic when it comes to Scribus itself, or licensing issues (I'm infamous for doing
>     so), but we cannot waste our time by introducing bureaucratic rules that may suffocate development.
>      
>     Also: Please use Plain Text, not HTML, for your ML postings.
>      
>     Kind regards,
>      
>     Christoph
>     *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 30. September 2014 um 00:18 Uhr
>     *Von:* "Kunda Loves Scribus" <scribus.user at gmail.com <mailto:scribus.user at gmail.com>>
>     *An:* "Scribus Dev Mailing List" <scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net
>     <mailto:scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net>>
>     *Betreff:* [scribus-dev] correction needed recent commit r19543
>     Commit message for r19543 is actually #12733 and not #2733
>      
>     /Kunda
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> Hi Christoph,
> 
> re: Plain text
> I'm usually thinking about such things. Honestly, I'm not fully used to using this type of ML
> technology. Sometimes switching from between different types of lists that exist today can cause
> some forgetfulness. These are things that I try to pay attention to as best as possible as well. As
> for responding in pure text I need to examine gmail further to see if I can specify that. Will look
> in to it. I'm pretty sure that reply to this email will _not_ send it in plain text. For just this
> moment forgive me for doing so. 
> 
> re: bureaucracy
> I see. Given your response I can feel that this is an important issue for you and therefore I'm
> noting your position on it for future considerations. Though I am pretty certain that my intention
> for pointing out what I was pointing out was purely out of 'future friendly' concern. In other
> words, to be able to correctly and efficiently track down the correct revisions based on the commit
> message. Also, I was following the intelligent behavior that has been modeled and that I've learned
> to appreciate existing in the SVN commit process. 
> 
> Just to be clear, I have no intention of asserting my ego, quirks, or privileges on anybody let
> alone 'suffocate development' or introduce unneeded protocols. I, just like all of us who
> participate, want to see Scribus succeed. 
> 
> Now if you see behavior that you'd prefer me to reflect on and change I would be willing to listen
> and examine your feedback. 
> 
> I am in agreement with you to keep Scribus as free as possible from bureaucracy. 
> 
> Thank you,
> /Kunda 

Kunda - Please ignore Christoph in this case. :)

Christoph - lay off the war path :)

Everyone - go fix a bug will ya! :)

Craig




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