[fpc-pascal] Re: RE : RE : RE : Assigningvalue toftVariantdatatype& varbytes-still stuck

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sun Aug 14 19:01:25 CEST 2011


In our previous episode, Ludo Brands said:
> > 
> > Your remarks really hurt my motivation to look at those 
> > bugreports at all. That and the fact that I spent a holiday 
> > week closing quite some goes unnoticed.
> 
> Marco, all my excuses if you felt my message suggested I was pointing in
> your direction. I wasn't. I'm a little surprised by you taking this
> personnally since most of the patches I personnaly submitted and that you
> dealt with where comitted quickly.

First, the message came out a bit harsher than I meant it to be. Still it is
not fun to read a comment like that after working on something for over a
week. 

> And, you don't have to believe me, but I did notice your great efforts
> last weeks working and catching up on older and new issues.  What did
> trigger my reaction are examples like this:
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=19902 a patch contributed recently
> to implement ODBC transactions while this patch
> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=14944 was submitted in 2009 for the
> same but never committed.

It happens. I can imagine some TDBF bug submitters being quite frustrated
too. Negative sentiment is not even limited to fcl-db: 

http://zeos.firmos.at/viewtopic.php?t=3157&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Anyway, still it is important to realize that committers are volonteer, and
have their own responsibilities too.  Preferably test(which is harder for
databases), but at least have an idea about what they are committing.




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