The question is not quite "who wrote this patch", but "to whom does the node that is the patch belong". Some patches, for reasons lost on me, are owned by developers. Some are owned by pmdev to allow anyone in pmdev to modify them, thus allowing colaberation -- but that's now frowned upon, because it's annoying for various reasons not worth going into -- not the least of which is that it makes it difficult to tell who wrote what.

Also, there's an important reason demerphq missed that the absolute count of patches isn't useful -- sometimes you're write a patch one way, and it doesn't quite work. It's your choice if you want to write another patch, or just edit the old one. I generally prefer to edit the old one; demerphq generally perfers to write a new one. Neither method is really better then the other. (This isn't to say that demerphq hasn't done more then I have; he has.)

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In reply to Re^6: Proposal: Option to Decline XP from voting by theorbtwo
in thread Proposal: Option to Decline XP from voting by rozallin

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