please revert back

Hi, I'm feeling in a quite difficult situation. I have pushed a huge set of patches with the assumption they were being approved by the main developers and now, instead of a supportive environment I feel like my code is being rejected . it seems to work, but its just a big ugly hack. I'm really far from arguing that this is false. As I said I'm a legal scholar doing legal, economic and philosophical research. I do not really have the competence for having a contest with the main developer, Spencer. Moreover in the silence of some the other developers and a mixed approach but Brent, each one far more expert then me on the subject. Which leads me to think that it is me who's being wrong, and, since I have no (scientific) interest in avoiding admitting my faults - my reputation here is far from being at stake - I have no problem to acknowledged I did a mistake by abusing the trust that has been given to me, by granting me write access to the contributory repository. While I can assure you that I did all that with plenty of good faith, truly (even if only subjectively) thinking to improve xmonad, you may also understand that I'm now not in a position to joyfully maintain my code, if I have to argue. Because I'm not in the position of feeling I'm i the right position. I hope you understand that there is no harsh in my words, but just the acknowledgment that a computer scientist has more knowledge than me, and that for me it would just be wasted pretending that's not true. So please revert. We are at the very beginning and people are distracted by the release, so the change would go almost unnoticed. At a latter time, after deeper code analysis, you may consider to slowly introduce some of the changes I proposed, if you find them not too hackish. I really really hope you'll appreciate the constructive intent of this message, and the fact the its intention is supportive of this community. Cheers, Andrea

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Hi,
I'm feeling in a quite difficult situation. I have pushed a huge set of patches with the assumption they were being approved by the main developers and now, instead of a supportive environment I feel like my code is being rejected . it seems to work, but its just a big ugly hack.
We're coders, so can you just simply state what you want done? -- Don

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:37:31PM -0800, Don Stewart wrote:
mailing_list: We're coders, so can you just simply state what you want done?
I've sent many mail describing what I was doing. If those mail did not get read I cannot be of any help. If the way they were written cannot be understood (I would expect that in a friendly environment one would write back to ask "what the hell are you saying!"), if all that doesn't work I'm really asking how much time do you think I will be willing to dedicate, if, all I did was useless? we are coder? read the code. if you like it keep it, otherwise, please revert. and we just have this ugly discussion closed. As I said I feel deeply embarrassed by this situation. Can you understand that? Andrea
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Andrea Rossato
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Don Stewart