Need to do something

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Oct 16 09:11:45 UTC 2005


On 14 oct. 05, at 22:18, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Ah, now there is a concept: "Improvement". My whole bitching about  
> what has done to the chess game comes down to the point that in my  
> view, not a single one of these changes were improvements. Now, the  
> question is: Can a maintainer (before you go into this, I am NOT  
> claiming to be a maintainer for the chess game, this is a  
> theoretical question) say that he doesn't want some global replace  
> of "foo at: 1" with "foo first" and will still be considered  
> responsible, or do you have to take whatever is thrown at you? In  
> reality, the ability to decide what consitutes an improvement and  
> what not is probably the strongest expression of ownership in that  
> code.

sure if you are the maintainer you should be able to have control.  
Else other people simply fork your code
if they are not happy with it.

Stef




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