missing feedback (Re: [kde-announce] Announcing KDE 3.2)

[Aaron Seigo]

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On February 5, 2004 13:32, Christian Loose wrote:
> That's what I find strange. When I attach a patch to the wish the
> maintainer gets a mail, right? So why do I have to send him the patch
> again?

a little thing called reality; i don't pretend to know all the reasons, but  
there's a reason why there are people do little else but bug triage.

> I'm being so pedantic about this, because I told a few people on kde-devel
> in the past that when they don't want to see their patches get overlooked
> they should attach it to a bug report. This of course doesn't make sense
> when the maintainer chooses to ignore the bugzilla messages.

not all developers do ignore them, and some aren't ignoring the patches they 
just forget about them. and putting the patch with a bug is a great idea and 
way to ensure it survives, but that isn't mutually exclusive with discussing 
it with people more directly as well =)

> When you tell me to just send it always directly to the maintainer, I'm
> fine with that (even when there are some maintainers that choose to ignore
> those mails too).

which is why you should put it in a bug report as well =) patches can be like 
children: they need attention and care before they make out into the world on 
their own. ;-)

> > to help that process go better, we could certainly use a few ppl doing
> > bug triage
>
> I wish I had more time besides working on Cervisia. :-(

Cervisia rocks =) w/out it i would've had a harder time getting some of the 
codeweenies i've worked with in the past to use CVS and desktop Linux.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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