Forum OpenACS Development: Re: social networking functionality for acs-subsite? TIP?

The TIP rules, as I understand them, don't have this requirement[1].

OK, fine, we relaxed that requirement (it was discussed in the beginning).

Great, you get to start a TIP.

It doesn't mean you get to hack core without TIP'ing.

I don't think I'm special. I really didn't think this social networking thing was worth distracting the OCT from other work. It seems like a very small, incrementally positive thing. Nothing more. As an afterthought, based on your reaction, I'm wondering if there is some kind of MIT/facebooky vs. MIT.alt feud thing motivating this dialog.

Oh, good grief, Torben, stuff a sock in the conspiracy theory orifice.

You've been told you need to TIP before adding functionality to core.

This is not new.

I'm fairly confident, yet remain open-minded and do not assume to understand all core-developer issues

This statement alone justifies our policy that changes of this sort require a TIP.

Create or show me the package, and I'll move it there.

That's not how it works, Torben.

Remove your commits. We'll discuss afterwards if you choose to TIP.

you wrote: "You have a personal habit of breaking stuff in core and others have had to spend time fixing it in the past ..."

I supposed it could be viewed that way. I have mistakenly broken core functionality from inadvertently breaking package.info XML standards so the core couldn't read it --twice.

Yet, to my defense, I've also taken initiative to help fix things that were inadvertently broken by code improvements from others, digging in where I had little understanding. The outcomes were positive, even if my own net contribution was only in helping others to see the problem and motivating them to fix it.

I will TIP all core changes, including the one in dispute. Sorry for the confusion on removing the code.. I'm working on it..