Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Commit messages broken??

[Daniel S. <da...@fo...>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:02:46AM -0500, Zack Rusin wrote:
> On Thursday 11 March 2010 02:58:49 Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > ]] Zack Rusin 
> > | BTW, replacing a mail client on the server with something that's not
> > | compatible is not very social.
> > 
> > Rather than assuming malice, you may assume that I was trying to fix
> > something when I made that change.  
> 
> I was assuming that whoever did it was trying to do something, but the 
> reasoning behind the change doesn't change the result at all - we were not 
> informed of it and the commit messages broke. So as far as we are concerned 
> there really wouldn't be any difference between someone just deleting 
> /usr/bin/mail and you trying to fix something by replacing mail with something 
> else. The bottom line is that there's quite a few projects hosted on fdo, with 
> a lot of people depending on that setup and making changes to it without 
> communicating it very clearly it is bound to break something.
> I don't want to make into a big deal, because it wasn't but a short email or 
> even an blog just saying "new /usr/bin/mail is coming in, make sure it doesn't 
> break your project" would avoid the whole problem.

Shit happens.  Ease up.