| There’s no gnome-terminal mailing list. Since "bike shedding" is struck down with regularity on the bug tracker I wrote the guy directly before he made the commits. I asked why he wants to remove the feature. He said it’s loosely connected to other features that are buggy and he doesn’t see the point of the feature anyhow. Whether I had a justification for the feature to stay. I replied and gave him two good reasons, one of personal merit, one of technical merit. Then nothing else. Then I discovered that it indeed had been removed, while I was following git snapshots. So I checked the NEWS and Changelog, ReleaseNotes and git. No mention. Could’ve been temporary or unintentional. So I wrote the guy again to ask what’s up. No reply. Then he replied with a non-answer only pointing to a FAQ entry he made the same day with a distracting workaround. So I checked out git locally to see where the code went. It turned out among unrelated commits where the code was #if 0’ed out only to be removed a few commits later with "delete dead code" etc. So I wrote him again to ask why he did this. No reply. So I downgraded to the known-good old version and waited for release time. Same story repeats with other people. Apparently nothing personal because of my tone. So. Conspiracy or justified puzzlement about this behaviour? |