Re: patches policy

[David Laight]

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:41:15PM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On September 9, 2002 02:30 pm, Andriy Palamarchuk wrote:
> > I also usually compress patches with size >= 20-30kb
> > to save everybody's bandwith.
>
> Please don't. Bandwidth is order of magnitudes cheaper than
> people's time, attention, *and* expertise. A skilled reviewer
> costs a LOT more than the few fraction of a penny you save
> compressing. It's simply a bad tradeoff.

Not only that, most modem links will do a moderate amount
of compression - so it isn't anywhere near as bad as it might
seen.

David