Personally I think it was a bit harsh of Nilsson to revert the patch, at least that soon after applying it.
I still think it was the right thing to do. Since I applied the patch it was my responsibility to make sure the tree was OK afterwards. Sure, I could have asked more people than Marek to fix the source, but I thought that we were near the release of Pike 7.4 and thought people had more important things to fix than new code.
/ Martin Nilsson (har bott i google)
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2003-04-25 00:32: Subject: Re: Sad.....
This is something that usually called "Not invented here" syndrome. Sad, but this is true.
There has been some truth in that historically, but has it continued after the move to IDA? There hasn't been that many suggestions from outside the old "core gang" since then. Some have been opposed since they aren't viable (notably your wish to introduce unsigned native integers). Most have been discussed and considered ok by consensus and it's just a matter of someone actually getting started on it (e.g. fixing embedding and a good ABI, adding the PCRE glue, finishing up the security system, adding glue for some XML/SAX/DOM/XSLT library). Some of those were perhaps held off for a while to allow a 7.4 release first. Some have been both discussed and implemented (e.g. SDL and Audio).
However this last IPv6 patch issue can probably be considered an example of that attitude. Personally I think it was a bit harsh of Nilsson to revert the patch, at least that soon after applying it.
/.../ Especially after last experience (related to SSL stuff - I asked a question and it was completely ignored, despite that it is a serious flaw).
You're not alone in being met by silence; it has happened to me too several times. It's usually an indication that noone consider himself knowledgeable enough to provide a useful comment on the issue. Remember that there are parts that have been developed by people that aren't very active anymore, so it might be that noone knows anything about it. That means that your opinion is currently the most initiated one, and if you have a solution it's clearly the best one available so you should feel free to commit it.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS