24 Oct
2013
24 Oct
'13
3:48 a.m.
On 2013-10-24 02:25, Paul Gear wrote:
On 10/24/2013 10:15 AM, Adam Armstrong wrote: ... I hope you now have some small amount of understanding about why I didn't want to commit the patch in the first place, and why we tend to view contributions as often more of a burden than a help.
An analogy I've often made is that "donating" code to an open source project is like "donating" a child to an orphanage. Thankfully in this case, the original deadbeat dad has come back to clean up the poop.
You've been reading Dale Carnegie again, haven't you, Adam?
That is unlikely, unless it has a lot of pictures.
adam.