Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch

[Dustin Sallings]

On Saturday, Sep 27, 2003, at 03:18 US/Pacific, MJ Ray wrote:

> On 2003-09-27 02:24:45 +0100 Dustin Sallings <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >         It's certainly possible, but completely unrelated to anything I said.
>
> I cannot hear what you said.  You must type it in next time.

	Oh come on, there's no need to degrade to such childish pedantry.  In 
my dictionary, the second definition of ``say'' is ``to express in 
words.''

> > > [...]  Tape the tools together if you always use them 
> > > simultaneously.  If it becomes popular to tape them, come back and 
> > > try again.
> >         Isn't that one of the reasons this list exists?
>
> Yes, but you have skipped the step of taping them, telling people and 
> waiting to see if it becomes popular.  You are inviting lots of 
> hypothesising and jumping straight to the "try again" part.

	Your list of steps did not include telling people about such things.  
It suggested that everyone who wants a feature should implement it 
themselves, and if we somehow find out that lots of people have 
implemented this feature, we come back and try again.  I'm assuming the 
last part means making it available centrally for everyone.

	I prefer starting at the point where I have an idea for something that 
might improve workflow efficiency and coming here and asking what 
people think of it.  If nobody agrees, then it becomes something I do 
for myself.  If other people want it, then it's something I do for 
others as well.

	There's just no need to discourage innovation and progress like this.  
If a feature gets added because people want it, but you don't, then 
don't use it.

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