[PATCH] ipsum_calc_block: Optimize size and speed

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> It seems to me that you are so afraid to break something for your precious
> IXPs that you rather drop user contributions than integrate them unless
> the changes has been proven correct. I, as a developer, has to do all the
> work, testing  and "prove" that the change is "good". My view would be
> the work load should be shared by the community, this will help moving
> BIRD forward much quicker.

A necessary step in sharing your work with the community is to convince
the community that the change you want to introduce is useful and/or
interesting.

Why else should they spend any effort on helping to develop and test your
change?

Actually, if you look inside the archive of this mailing list, you will
be surprised that most people have had it very easy to get their feature
accepted. Perhaps "this feature would be useful for my routers" is a sounder
argument that "this will boost the performance, but I won't tell you how and
why". Perhaps the problem does not lie in the BIRD community, but in your
attitude...

Maybe you could take a look at the development process of some other projects
which aim for producing high quality code, like for example the Linux kernel.

				Have a nice fortnight
-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares                          <mj at ucw.cz>   http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
Anti-trust laws should be approached with exactly that attitude.