Re: Handling policy commitment disputes [was: Berlin Consensus document posted]

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[email protected]>
wrote:

> It was also brought up that if you are way upstream yourself with one of
> your modules, you shouldn’t take dependencies on things willy nilly – as
> that puts maintainers in an upstream position they may not want to be
> in. Rather before you take a new dependency you ought to ask the author
> whether he or she is willing to take on such responsibility; some just
> want to release some code, in which case pointing your horde of users at
> them would not be a very considerate move to either them or the users.
>

That's a great point that I'll try to remember to include in my annotated
version.


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