Re: [TCLCORE] On editing of passed TIP's

[Gerald L. <ger...@gm...>]

On 1/11/25 09:30, Poor Yorick wrote:
> On 2025-01-11 16:49, Kevin Walzer wrote:
>> Nathan,
>>
>>> On Jan 11, 2025, at 8:48 AM, Poor Yorick wrote:
>>>
>>> My point is that my commit was reverted without citing any
>> deficiency in
>>> the commit. To date, no one has cited any deficiency in the commit.
>>
>> That doesn’t matter. The edits themselves are simply inappropriate.
>> You don’t have license to make these changes on completed TIPs.
>> Post-TIP edits should be limited to narrowly targeted clarifications
>> of unclear technical details, should be discussed by the TCT, voted
>> on, and documented. Who appointed YOU the copy editor of TIPs? You
>> don’t seem to understand that you are making a CATEGORICAL
>> misjudgment here - that your editorial services, buttressed by your
>> sole editorial discretion and judgment and without input from anyone
>> else in the community, are required.
>
> This comment was not about edits to a TIP, but about this commit to
> tcl.n:
>
>     https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/file?name=doc/Tcl.n&ci=1117e4b1f0c36d54: 
>

That is even worse!!!!!!

That page was generated as part of a TIP.

The correct procedure would have been to submit a bug report with a 
suggested fix or a new TIP to address the wording, not just make random 
changes.

Sorry, no soup for you.

>
> Regarding edits to TIPs:  If you think an edit is deficient, just 
> revert it, but make sure you point out the deficiency. 

NO, if YOU think the TIP is incorrect in any way, including grammar, 
spelling, or anything else then SUBMIT A COMMENT TO THE TCT.

As to not pointing out why, they were likely trying to be nice to you 
and not cause you embarrassment. By putting in a comment to the effect: 
"Nathan is not playing by the rules, again!".

No soup for you.


> You seem to have a
> fundamental misunderstanding of the way collaborative development is
> done in all the repositories:  No one appointed anyone to make any
> particular changes.  People just make contributions where they have the
> skill and the resolve.  If the contributions are good, they are
> accepted.  If not, they are rejected. 

NO!  You have a refusal to play by the rules as laid down in TIPs 0 
through 5.

In other words: You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how 
Tcl development is to be done.

No soup for you.


> The vast majority of my hundreds of contributions, representing a 
> significant amount of invested time, have been accepted without any 
> trouble.


When you play by the rules they may.  When you try to break the rules 
they will not be.

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| Gerald W. Lester                                                       |
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