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Linus on what remains to be merged

Linus on what remains to be merged

Posted Oct 31, 2002 18:51 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: Linus on what remains to be merged by tjc
Parent article: Linus on what remains to be merged

Unfortunately it's hard to find free software projects that accept patches of this sort. :^)

Shameless plug: GNU Midnight Commander

Actually, patches that remove something are very rarely suggested by developers other than the core maintainers. On the other hand, there is always a vocal minority who demand to leave their feature alone, even if it has been broken for years, and nodody has ever reported the bug, let alone fixed it.

That's another reason to be conservative when adding new features.


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