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Re: Counter-ITP of doxygen (was: Re: Please upload: doxygen-1.4.2 _20050410-1 (n'th take))
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:59:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: Counter-ITP of doxygen (was: Re: Please upload: doxygen-1.4.2 _20050410-1 (n'th take))
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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