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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti•com>
To: Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com>
Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net"
	<bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Random order for clients page
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:44:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+8xBpcXe8evJpmJOMGjhrBNkcThu6A9uUiCjg0uqr+JokQjhw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAS2fgRd0gqrxXs4Le6nydYBaG7EO=T7FrtX6QZpg3aJtAxSvg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail•com> wrote:
> If you had authored this as a pull request rather than making the
> change unilaterally I would have recommended leaving it so the
> reference client was always first. I also would have suggested that it
> use JS randomization instead of jekyll in order to get more even
> coverage, though I think thats a more minor point.

Agreed, and this would be why I support revert -- pull requests are
for anything non-trivial.  This practice of pull requests clearly
should be followed in the case of controversial changes.

> Some people were concerned when this page was created that it would
> just be a source of useless disputes.  I think its becoming clear that
> this is the case. I think the cost of dealing with this page is
> starting to exceed the benefit it provides and we should probably
> consider removing it.

Agreed.
-- 
Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik@exmulti•com



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-09 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-09 15:54 Amir Taaki
2012-07-09 16:04 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-09 16:09   ` Amir Taaki
2012-07-09 16:39     ` Stefan Thomas
2012-07-09 16:55       ` Harald Schilly
2012-07-09 17:21         ` Luke-Jr
2012-07-09 17:46     ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-09 18:03       ` Alan Reiner
2012-07-09 18:29         ` thomasV1
2012-07-09 18:18       ` Amir Taaki
2012-07-09 18:30         ` Mike Hearn
2012-07-09 22:26           ` Stefan Thomas
2012-07-09 22:37             ` Mike Hearn
2012-07-10  2:36               ` Stefan Thomas
2012-07-10  2:44                 ` Alan Reiner
2012-07-10  3:05                   ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-10  7:12                     ` Wladimir
2012-07-10  9:11                     ` Stefan Thomas
2012-07-13 15:20                       ` Daniel F
2012-07-09 23:07             ` [Bitcoin-development] Wiki client list (was: Random order for clients page) Luke-Jr
2012-07-09 18:48         ` [Bitcoin-development] Random order for clients page Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-09 20:44   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2012-07-09 17:33 ` Nils Schneider
2012-07-09 18:24   ` Amir Taaki
2012-07-09 18:54 Jim
2012-07-09 18:57 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-07-09 19:14   ` Alan Reiner
2012-07-09 20:13     ` Gary Rowe

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