RE: PATCH keyword, again

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> > > (Personally, I don't even think it makes sense for every module.
> > 
> > Do you have examples of any modules for which it would not 
> make sense?
> 
> Any for which the maintainer says no; any for which 
> specialised knowledge is required; etc. Sometimes, it just 
> doesn't work. If someone decides that it would make sense to 
> refuse inclusion of modules without multiple maintainers in 
> Platform and Desktop releases, that's going to suck. Let's 
> encourage it, but not demand it.

In the absence of contradictory evidence, I hypothesize that it would work
for all modules, and therefore should be encouraged. I don't want to believe
that there is any GNOME module which is so badly coded or documented that
only 1 single person is ever capable of understanding it enough. That would
quickly be a completely unmaintainable module.

And if anybody is currently maintaining an unmaintainable module then I
think that 2 people are just as capable of maintaining it as 1.

Murray Cumming
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