Re: Discussing issues

Egbert Eich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kendall Bennett writes:
 > To answer that, let me quote something you yourself said so well a few 
 > posts back:
 > 
 > "While there are things that people have a right to demand - they have a 
 > right to demand to be able to contribute..."   
 > 
 > The above clearly outlines to me why "the people who have contributed the 
 > most having the most say?" is clearly wrong. Just because you have been 
 > developing XFree86 code for many years, what right do *you* have to 
 > control what *I* can contribute to XFree86? The mere fact that such a 

Can you give me an example when this happened?
I'm not talking about things that fell thru the cracks - which
is unfortunate but something that may happen everywhere.

When has anybody rejected a reasonable code contribution?

Of course, there may be objections as your contribution may have
side effects that you may have not realized. But as a contributor 
you should be prepared to solicite your changes enough to make
necessary adjustments.

Egbert.
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