[mythtv-users] Disk Space Way Wrong

[Yeechang Lee]

Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> says:
> Even if there was no Jesus/Lord link intended, that's still a
> personal attack. Or are you trying to say there was no sarcasm
> intended there, and you meant every word you said?

I didn't make the possible connection between Jean-Yves' joke about
Jesus' preaching and Mark's name until Mark pointed it out, and
believe Jean-Yves when he says it wasn't intentional.

Of course Jean-Yves was being (otherwise) sarcastic. Mark was the
first to be condescending, though, with his lecture/explanation on
what a symbolic link is. I would hope anyone reading a mailing list on
MythTV, a project that is (and likely always will be)
Linux/POSIX-based, would know what it is.

> Why, are you unable to participate while remaining civil? I'm not
> asking anyone to kiss anyone's ass or anything, but there's no need
> for the sort of comments I quoted above, especially when Mark really
> didn't do anything to provoke it.

I disagree. Trac exists for a reason, and using a ticket system is
hardly unusual among F/OSS projects. That kernel development is done
entirely by offering patches over a mailing list is irrelevant; this
is mythtv-users (not even mythtv-dev), not LKML. Perhaps if the issue
were some life-or-death issue its reception would have been different,
but otherwise MythTV developers have enough work already without also
having to manually create a ticket for a patch *which none of them
needs*, offered by someone who explicitly refuses to and shows
contempt for long-existing procedures.

There probably isn't a single MythTV user who is able to code, knows
how to compile, and has moved beyond the Mythbuntu system-on-a-CD
stage, who doesn't keep a few patches of his own. As already stated on
the list, there are many reasons why one would keep some patches
private. I have them; in my case I release all via the bijou
distribution that ATrpms hosts, but the fact remains that they are not
part of the official source code. Jean-Yves has them, and does
something similar with his Ubuntu repo. Your valuable Ceton work for
0.24 is another example, needless to say.

But 100 (even while calling himself a "casual user")?!? Keeping 100
patches to himself is Mark's own business, but then he really, really
can't complain here about an issue one of them fixes.

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