On 07/18/2013 01:48 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote:
A friendly upstream *is* important in a comparsion chart. Working with an unfriendly, or even hostile upstream is not something you want to have in a core component of an operating system.
Friendliness has nothing to do with accepting every single patch that people sent in. Just because an upstream project doesn't take your patches doesn't mean they don't like you but rather it should give you a hint to check whether your changes make sense. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913