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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 05 February 2004 23:47, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Thu February 5 2004 21:32, 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?
>
> Speaking for myself. Sometimes I am busy working on something else and do
> not have time at that moment/day to look into the patch... one day
> passes... two day passes... and by then that mail is somewhere deeply
> hidden between a dozen other messages.

Yes, and even if a patch is included, I usually don't take it and simply apply 
it. I have to read it, understand what it does, apply and probably slightly 
modify it so that I like it, test and finally commit. So even applying a 
ready-made patch is more than a 10-minutes task.

Bye
Alex
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