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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2007 unfinished summary continued
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
Date: 2007-10-14 01:13:18 GMT (1 year, 7 weeks, 2 days, 20 hours and 6 minutes ago)

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> My main point is -- and always was -- that I'd like people to realise how 
> much it depends on _them_ if (and when) their wishes come true.

Dscho, that's just not fair.

The fact is, stating what you wish for *is* taking an action. Starting to 
complain about people stating their wishes (which you have done several 
times) is simply unreasonable.

You don't have to *do* what they wish for, but I really wish you stopped 
complaining about people bringing up their hopes for improvement.

Complain about it when somebody asks for something *stupid*. Explain why 
it would be wrong to do something like that. But don't complain about 
people having wish-lists, even if those people may not work on them.

Not everybody is a "doer". It's important to get input from people who are 
just plain users, or hope to be.

		Linus