Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

 
> On the other hand, in how may open source projects has the following
> attitude ever worked: I am a developer new to your project. I saw you have
> a few open bugs. Here are small fixes for those bugs. Further, I have some
> suggestions for more substantial improvements, would you like to hear
> them?

Probably in most


> In how many open source projects will the following
> attitude ever work: I am new to the project, so first I tell the existing
> developers all they do wrong. Then I claim that I am the over-expert in
> some field, i.e. parallel programming, and hence when I come I expect all
> developers to drop everything they are doing to support my major changes
> to their program.

Probably in most, if the big changes where actually good, and are possible
to be applied gradually (I guess 3.6 -> 3.7 was a huge jump to add SMP at
all, but now as it works overall, some finetuning could be usefull
probably?)

> Just because we don't want contributors like those who contributed to the
> Debian OpenSSL "fix" does not mean we don't want contributors. But fact is

<debiancat> Im in your code, commenting out your functions

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