Re: [Savannah-users] what are the usefulness criteria for submitted code?

[André Z. D. A.]

Em 03-03-2017 03:51, Matthew Carter escreveu:
> john smith <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > *snip* bunch of text
>
> No offense, but the scripts (I just got done looking through them) leave
> tons of loose ends that would more likely hurt rather than help a random
> user who ran them.
>
> They make tons of assumptions about directories and binaries existing on
> a user's system, without proper safeguards / defensive programming
> around the different commands prior to running.
>
> I think if you spent all your time on those emails enhancing the scripts
> instead, they probably could have been in a state that was good enough
> to be accepted by now.

I second your words, Mathew. You examined the scripts more than I did, 
but I can agree with what you said for the few scripts I have read and 
thought more fully.

I tried to induce these conclusions with the set of questions I have 
made before.

Unfortunatelly, John's reaction was not good, did not go ini that direction.

John, we have made suggestions of improvements in your scripts that 
would easily make them closer to something that could be accepted. Note 
that. And I will not make improvements to your scripts, based on what I 
have said (and also indirectly with the questions set), because I think 
these scripts, the way they are now, do not justify making a project 
from them.

And, I should say it again: I am just another Savannah user that read 
this mailing list.