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		nailer on May 31, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oh Yeah? Where's Your Patches Zed? Great code is still subject to entropy. Shit will break. Mail servers will start using some proposed SMTP extension, someone will find a nasty bug or two, there will be security problems and inconsistencies and inefficiencies discovered.

torr on June 1, 2009 [–]

Sure. Then you simply require hit-and-run commits to be well-commented and also include good docs.

Just because it's not currently maintained does not mean it won't be maintained in the future.

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