Re: -dcrop not included in 2.20?

[David Kastrup]

Joram <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi David,
>
> unfortunately I expected this inappropriate reaction.
>
>> Nobody, by the way, bothering to address this on a technical level.
>
> Because Étienne did as far as he can by proposing a patch and others
> (like me) can not address it. Especially not without knowning what is
> wrong with his patch in the first place. (Your reaction does not tell
> but indicates you think there is something wrong. But we do not know
> exactly.)

So please point out anything about my reaction that has been unclear.

The problem is that people do not even bother to _read_ what they think
they are responding to.

> No. The issue is several steps before that: Why not just include the
> patch as it is? It looks like you are not comfortable with that but it
> is not clear why and how a patch would look like that would be better.

Please do not fantasize about my motivations.  Quote what is unclear to
you.

> Or do I understand you right that no release manager exists and thus
> no commit would be merged to a 2.20 release branch at all?

At the current point of time, I am the release manager.  Apparently
enough people don't trust me to be capable of doing that job that they
would rather someone else do it.

Which would be fine with me.

-- 
David Kastrup