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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:59:16 -0400
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On 10/27/2012 03:59 AM, Gareth Edwards wrote:
> Whether I agree with the implicit assertion or not is neither here nor there.
> 
> What is more difficult to agree with is the explicit assertion that my
> personal thinking on the topic is "broken-ass". Maybe that wasn't the
> intended meaning, but that is how it reads.

  It wasn't, and if you took it that way, I apologize.

> I had thought it through quite carefully, and presented my reasons for
> concern in the original email. You looked at the top bit ("few recent
> commits") and ignored the bottom bit ("lots of bug fixes queued"). I
> hope we agree that getting the existing bug fixes into the codebase
> and out into the world at large is a reasonable goal.
> 
> [Incidentally, the thread since then has grown into a vigorous
> discussion which I have no current strong opinion on. I'm going to
> just get on with pushing the bug fixes I was talking about in the
> first place....]

  I don't disagree.  But your initial statement, while carefully
considered, did give me the impression that your first thought was the
attitude that I subsequently complained about.

               -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

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