Thank you, Martin. Sorry if I sounded impatient. > Sure (it was me, not Peter, who mentioned ESS etc).
Sorry, Peter! > Be assured that we will deal with this before the next release of R Thank you, that works for me. Frederick On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:57:28AM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote: > >>>>> <frede...@ofb.net> > >>>>> on Mon, 16 May 2016 18:40:50 -0700 writes: > > > Dear R Devel, Sorry for sending so many emails, but I > > haven't heard that anyone is working on the patches I > > created. > > > A few weeks ago I wanted to do something to contribute to > > R because I use it a lot. I picked the most annoying bugs > > I could find, and created two of the simplest patches I > > could create, > > > but all I've had in response from the R core > > team (aside from briefly banning my Bugzilla account) is a > > lengthy explanation for why power users don't use the > > basic command line interface. > > Well, I feel slightly irritated by this picture of what > happened, as the very first sentence I wrote started with > "Thank you" ... and I did mean it. > Also, I apologize if you+ only got critique from what I wrote. > > > I'm grateful to Peter for the list of tools like ESS that > > people use to interface with R; but if I wanted to submit > > a bug to ESS then I would have sent it to a different mailing list. > > If you reread what I said (or tried to say): I gave you a reason > why I (personally) was waiting/reluctant applying your patches: > I would not notice if I introduced a new bug, etc... and I also told > you that I thought that (almost) everybody else from the core team would > be in the same situation: all just reasons, Peter and I had hoped somebody > else would step up and confirm and apply the bug fixes. > > Be assured that we will deal with this before the next release of R, > (R 3.3.1, which has not yet been scheduled). I'm sorry if this > was not clear from what we said, we did imply it. > > We also have other obligations, not the least teaching, > students, and we have a life off screen-&-keyboard, so do have > tad more patience, please. > > Best regards, > Martin > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
