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Kurt Zeilenga wrote:

On Apr 17, 2010, at 3:15 AM, matthijs@cacholong.nl wrote:

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On Apr 16, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Howard Chu wrote:

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If Peter wants his patch considered for inclusion in OpenLDAP he =

should write to the ITS himself, we cannot accept 3rd party = contributions.

What's the reasoning behind this?

3rd parties (middle men) not only hinder good communication between the authors(s) of the contribution and the Project/Foundation, they introduce various risks to both the author and the Project/Foundation.

Regard, Kurt (Executive Director, The OpenLDAP Foundation)

Hi,

Thanks for the explanation, I'll keep it in mind when forwarding patches and / or bug reports from the Debian bugtracker.

Regards,

Matthijs Mohlmann