No fun allowed
On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 12:59 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@iee.org> wrote:
> On 14/05/16 17:53, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
>> Gordon Pettey schrieb:
>>
>>> So, it's perfectly okay to make direct commits of obviously broken
>>> code that
>>> has no chance of working, because community something mumble...
>>
>> You may have missed some sarcasm in the post which you replied to.
>> Plus, I don't think anybody said or implied that committing broken
>> things is ok.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
>>
> I think the time is coming, given the diversity of members of this list,
> to add <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags when we are not describing something
> literally. It becomes very difficult to follow the thread of
> conversation when people are (not) communicating their true thoughts!!
>
While this is certainly sensible, the irony here is that this whole
discussion was started by somebody making a sarcastic remark when
simply pointing out a mistake would have been just as functional.
Nobody thinks it is ok to commit broken code. What it seems like
we'll be debating until there is only one of us left is how
unprofessional we should be when pointing that out.
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Rich