From: "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net>
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Subject: Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 18:01:46 -0500
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On Monday 13 February 2006 08:44, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
> > > Are you accepting such a patch?
> >
> > If his response to the last patch someone provided is any example the
> > answer is going to be no. And I firmly believe the old adage that a
> > leopard can't change it's spots.
>
> Any patch that
>
> -	does not break things
>
> -	fits into the spirit of the currnt implementation
>
> -	offers useful new features
>
> -	conforms to coding style standards
>
> -	does not need more time to integrate than I would need to
> 	write this from scratch
>
> Unfortunately, many people who send patches to me do not follow
> these simple rules.

Okay - show me your standards document and I'll get to work on a patch to do 
what I earlier proposed. It won't be "adding new functionality" but it will 
be making the interface a tiny bit simpler for the novice user.

DRH
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