license of support files for bug 154602

[J. Paul Reed]

On 10 Jul 2003 at 11:51:55, Christopher Hicks moved bits on my disk to say:

> Come now.  If you want to punt on it until the next version fine, but it
> doesn't do much harm to let it in eventually.  It should be a straight
> forward patch.  Don't get scared by the smileys patch!

Have you seen the patch?

Not only is it not straightforward, it's actually kinda messy. And it's not
so much that we're "scared" by the patch; Gerv makes a good point: it's
more code in BZ that doesn't actually *do* anything useful for... well...
tracking bugs.

Sure, it makes life a bit happier and more fun, but in the end, someone has
to audit, maintain, and over the life of the project, learn about that code
to support it.

And therein lies the problem... if 2.20 breaks smilies, is the patch author
going to fix it? Are any of the core team members going to want to? Will we
have to just back the broken code out?

This is why it's much better to put it in its own contrib/ directory as a
patch, with instructions. How hard is patch -p0 < smilies.patch, and moving
some image files around?

Later,
Paul
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