[petsc-dev] Pushing non-working code

[Karl Rupp]

Hi,

>         Since I'm on this list (less than a year) I regularly observed
>         lots of resistance with respect to any changes of workflow. This
>         can be either due to bad suggestions for improvement, or due to
>         the emerge of an overly conservative development culture. I'm
>         fine with the first option, but I fear the latter (not only
>         PETSc-related).
>
>
> One more comment on an "overly conservative development culture". It is
> easy to see pushback on changes as
> unwarranted caution, whereas the other side sees it as preservation of
> desirable attributes. I think it would be just
> as easy to interpret the present changes as overly proscriptive, which
> are of course seen as improvements by the
> proposers.

I think we all know that there will - as you pointed out - always be two 
sides of a medal. I'll silence myself with this 
philosophically-yet-useless remark now and wait for Matt's data point :-)

Best regards,
Karli