Re: What's our official stance on small self-contained additions in a micro version

On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > > As I mentioned this wasn't something without precedence, but seeing how > > Derick(ext/date lead author/maintainer) was explicitly against this > > change, and there were no favorable response from the list I tend to > > agree with the revert. > > Derick reviewed that patch and I didn't see him even mentioning he is > explicitly against. Could you point me to where he describes he is > against it? If you think it needs to be reverted please do so, you are > the 5.6 RM. If you want me to do it I can do it later (on the weekend) > but you'll have to update the RC branch. > > you already stated that you missed Derick's mail, so I won't comment on that, but only the revert part: I'm able and willing to revert stuff when needed, but I always assume good faith (and that was the case here) and prefer contacting the author first if there is time pressure to revert. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu