On 25 June 2012 20:40, David Brown <david.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25/06/2012 14:12, Igor M Podlesny wrote: […] > Like many pieces of open source software, Linux md raid is written and > maintained by a mixture of volunteer work and corporate sponsorship. I have > no idea how much Suse (or Novell) pay Neil for the work he does - but he > goes far beyond the call of duty in his support work on this mailing list. He went even further, since "feel free to send a patch" is clearly sarcastic as well. Why? — I explained. > All he asks is that you ask your questions in a clear and polite way. > Putting the question in the subject but not in the body of the email is not > good enough - the post should have a good subject line /and/ a good email Who said so? Don't your mail client show Subject line or what? Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. It's simple matter and as to me I prefer brevity. I see no purpose in inflating mail body just due to it was short. It's simple matter, that's why it's short, damn it. And finally — the fact of the reply *was* given proved that the question was easily understood. So what, then? > body. Why should Neil or anyone else take the time to write a helpful reply > to someone who cannot even be bothered to write a good email? Ask him, not me. I wrote, he answered. 49 % off-topic, 1 % sarcasm, another 50 on topic — hell yeah, at least something! > Neil told you why md raid does not (currently) implement "--build" for > raid5. And he suggested that if you want that behaviour to change, you are > always welcome to send a patch. If you don't want to write an > implementation of the missing behaviour, that's fair enough too - very few > people respond to "feel free to send a patch" by actually sending a patch. And I reminded that my daily job is not LSR hacking, so now what? > But if you want to get annoyed and sarcastic, please keep your comments to > yourself. The same applies to you — keep it to yourself, David, if you wish. I'm free to speak my mind free, am not I? -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
