Mark Hindess wrote:
> On 3/16/06, Magnusson, Geir <geir.magnusson@intel.com> wrote:
>> What was I concerned about?
>
> ...
>
> On Mar 3, 2006 11:36 AM you wrote:
>> Mark Hindess wrote:
>>
>>> I've been spending a little time fixing up contributions that I think
>>> are worthwhile - mostly patches that have been broken by the recent
>>> shared native code moves that Tim committed. I'm willing to do this
>>> because I broke them ;-) but mostly because I know it helps reduce the
>>> load on committers and because having your patch broken/delayed can be
>>> discouraging for new contributors.
>> I'm actually a little worried about patches to patches because then the
>> provenance becomes unclear if there's a problem in the future. Hm.
>
> Which seemed to me to be a fairly reasonable concern.
>
Yes - ok. I guess there's a difference between a code fix kind of patch
and a "hey, this new build target for ant", but maybe not.
Something to ponder...
geir
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