Counter-ITP of doxygen (was: Re: Please upload: doxygen-1.4.2 _20050410-1 (n'th take))

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Sun Oct 16 02:06:00 GMT 2005


On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote:
>Although I can write reasonable shell and awk scripts, my real programming
>skills are nil.  In other words, I cannot see my basic debugging skills
>building up in any way, hard or otherwise.  Would it be inappropriate for
>someone like me to ITP a package, even though the first time someone reports
>a problem the package will probably have to be removed because I will not be
>able to fix the problem?

IMO, it would be entirely inappropriate for someone to provide a package and
then have to withdraw it at the first sign of trouble.  This goes completely
counter to the intent of providing a package.

cgf



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