New MI maintainer

[Thomas Dineen]

Gentle People:

   Yes but with the conditions listed below:

   "robustly constructed and justified"

   any contributor can easily be blown off for
any political reason!

   From my observations the attitudes expressed
in this thread are NOT positive for the Open Source
Movement. I would suggest that your movement would
benefit from more openness and democracy.

Thomas Dineen



Nick Roberts wrote:

> > Please don't be disappointed by mere politics.  If your technical
> > contributions continue, and are robustly constructed and justified,
> > any reasonable maintainer will have no choice but to go along.  A
> > powerful contributor can outproduce a maintainer, and in the end
> > that's what matters.
>
>Thanks but I'm probably not really a powerful contributor.  I just wanted to be
>able to commit patches in a timely fashion and somehow thought if I put in the
>hard yards that one day I would be able to do so.
>
>  
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