Hi Avi and all!

Avi Bryant <avi.bryant at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:24:06 +0100, goran.krampe at bluefish.se
> <goran.krampe at bluefish.se> wrote:
> > This little 'goodie' is a hack for helping people detect a change in the
> > Compiler that Avi (cough) introduced back in 3.7 (don't have the update
> > number handy)
> 
> Hm (cough), "introduced"?  I'm not sure I can be held responsible for
> every ENH that I post to the list that ends up making it into the
> image... wasn't that sort of the point of the Harvesting process?  Or
> were the guides simply taking authority over the update stream, not
> responsibility or accountability? ;)

No that was actually me joking a bit (but failed to attach the smiley),
but I did wonder how it came into the image in the next paragraph. So no
blame on you Avi, definitely not! And really, no blame on anyone IMHO,
we all make mistakes. :)
 
> I'm teasing you, as you were teasing me, but there's something deeper
> here that we need to be careful of: if we put the full responsibility
> on the person posting the fix, rather than on the person(s) accepting
> the fix, then there's a strong disincentive for people to contribute. 

No, no - I am all with you. I was more wondering about how it came in.

> I'd really like everyone to feel comfortable posting speculative
> changesets, even for areas in which they're clueless newbies - and
> when it comes to Compiler and FFI, I don't mind applying that
> description to myself.

I agree - posting something does NOT come with any responsibility IMHO.
The responsibility in this case was on the harvesters, and again, I am
not really blaming them either, sometimes we all make mistakes. This one
just hurt a bit. :)
 
> That said, I do feel bad that my little proposal ended up causing so
> much grief, and my deep thanks go out to you and Andreas and anyone
> else who put in time to clean up the mess.

Bah, things happen, no big deal. :)

> Cheers,
> Avi

Cheers, Göran