<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 1:34 PM, Terry Reedy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tjreedy@udel.edu" target="_blank">tjreedy@udel.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 1/31/2018 6:15 PM, Chris Barker wrote:<br>
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I still have no idea why there is such resistance to this [spelling corrected]<br>
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<br> M.-A. Lemburg already summarized his view of the specifics for this issue. And see below.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for that, I know I phrased it in no-very-open-for-discussion way, but that was what I was looking for. Frankly, I disagree with much of that, but it's been clearly layed out, which is what is needed to make a decision.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">(I'm assuming the OP (or someone) will do all the actual work of coding and updating docs....)<br>
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At least one core developer has to *volunteer* to review, likely edit or request edits, merge, and *take responsibility* for the consequences of the PR. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Fair enough -- it would be quite reasonable to say that this (or anything) wont get included u less a core dev decides it worth his/her time to bring it in -- but that is different than saying it won't be brought in regardless.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
I take this to mean that normal special cases are not special enough but some special special cases are. The meta meaning is that decisions are not mechanical and require tradeoffs, and that people will honestly disagree in close cases.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>yup -- there seems to be much resistance, and not much support -- so I guess we're done.</div><div><br></div><div>-CHB</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>Christopher Barker, Ph.D.<br>Oceanographer<br><br>Emergency Response Division<br>NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice<br>7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax<br>Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception<br><br><a href="mailto:Chris.Barker@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Chris.Barker@noaa.gov</a></div>
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