[Image-SIG] Re: PIL's configure bug -- from 2002

[Chris Barker]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Terry Hancock wrote:
>>  This violates published standards for both "free
>>software" and "open source software" definitions (generated
>>intermediate files are not "source code").  Surely it does so
>>accidentally, right?
> 
> 
> Hint: with that attitude, it's very easy to ignore you.

To try to help prevent this from turning personal:

As a total outsider, yes, Terry's tone in his most recent post was 
pretty snide. In fact, there was a bit of a critical tone to the first 
post as well (problem from 2002). However, the facts in his earlier 
posts can be boiled down to:

"""
I found what I think is a bug in your software that I think I know how 
to fix. If you tell me how to get the source, I will try to fix it, and 
report back what I have found, and give you a patch if I think I've 
fixed it.
"""

Why would an open source maintainer have any other reaction than:

"here's the source, let me know what you've figured out"


We all know that tone is very tricky with email...I try to ignore it and 
  try to figure out what people are really asking of me. All Terry is 
really asking is the configure.in file.

This would be very different if he was asking anyone else to fix his pet 
bug.

-Chris


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