Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.2dev.23

[dickey]

> Philip Webb wrote: 
>  
> > (2) TD should not revise in any significant manner someone else's patch 
> >     without submitting his version to the list for everyone's comment. 
>  
> Sorry, this is ludicrously wrong.  The ability and willingness to modify 
> (for the better) submitted patches is one of the very core capabilities 
> of a good development coordinator.  Tom does a very good job of this and 
> I hope he will not take any mind at all of your unilateral declaration 
> to the contrary. 
>  
> Implementing what you suggest would bog the entire development process 
> down into an endless series of "committee" arguments, similar to this 
> long pointless thread about which URL to make the default.  I suspect 
> that after a bit more of that, most of the core developers would stop 
> participating. 

The development patches are for everyone's comment; though of course if
no new issues are raised, I just move on to new ones.
  
> >Bela< 


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