From kde-core-devel Mon Jul 07 15:03:41 2008 From: "David Jarvie" Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:03:41 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Consensus on the kdelibs coding style Message-Id: <45919.195.11.201.126.1215443021.squirrel () www ! sensical ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=121544307824257 On Monday 7 July 2008 14:01, Lubos Lunak wrote: > I was afraid the mail would be too long to understand, and I see I was > right. > So, again in a shorter version, the two main aspects I don't like are: > - the fact that we got this "policy" in a way which reminds me of the past > regime in this country - it was done for the people and for their good on > their behalf, it was posted for comments but the only allowed comment was > "I approve", it was the only option, the feedback was ignored and the policy was > simply put up on techbase afterwards and with modifications even though > that wasn't originally allowed, and now history is changing with everybody > pretending like none of that happened and everything was right. > - some tendencies to be pedantic about every single detail of the policy. This is also my recollection of how the policy came into being. -- David Jarvie. KAlarm author & maintainer. http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm