[Gnu-arch-users] Manners

[Pierce T . Wetter III]

> > If you compare mozilla's features over the last year with the
> > number of mozilla's usage growth over the last year,
> Look closer at what's got good momentum and why.

  You're both wrong. Some features just "make sense" in a software
product, some don't. Browsers that don't have a local cache really
suck to use, so they all have them.

 On the other hand, I prefer FireFox to Mozilla, because all the
"extra" stuff in Mozilla is annoying.

 Our job as software engineers to to decide what makes sense and what
doesn't. Its a valid point that a general purpose cache might
be less useful then a domain specific cache for tla. Many tla users
have requested a cache, so there's obviously some desire there.

 The issue with caching is never filling the cache, that's easy, its
flushing the cache. So a tla-specific cache could intelligently flush
in a way that a general purpose one couldn't.


> > But there *is* a difference between today and the late nineties. In 
> > the
> > old days, features were added haphazardly without any sort of regard 
> > to
> > whether or not they served any purpose or provided any actual
> > benefit.
>
> Yes, and, oddly enough, I find myself trying to beat back such trends
> in arch.  How tedious.

 Yes, it is your job to beat back feeping creaturism.

 It's also your job to listen to your users and make sure that tla has
the _necessary_ yet _sufficient_ set of features.

 It's also your job to lead the troops, and personal attacks are not
leadership.

> > I only glanced over the rest of your email. You'll have to do better
> > at communicating effectively if you want me to spend time on it.
>
> There's only so many times I can hint to you that your reach exceeds
> your grasp at the moment.  *Please* try to separate your palbapble
> hatred of me from your contributions to arch.

 Tom, when one person says "you're difficult to communicate with", 
they're
a crank".

 When the entire world says "you're difficult to communicate with", 
you're
the crank.

 Your emails would be a lot better if you had simply left off the
personal attack. In all things, remember that you are not your code, and
a suggestion is not the person. Attack the code or the suggestion, not 
the
person.

 Pierce