Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation toprovide them fall

2006-03-22 Thread Frank Küster
"cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By not answering there's no way for the submitter to know which of the above > applies, it's an issue of not leaving users in uncertainty about what is > going on. > > A simple 1 line reply is enough to remove that uncertainty: > - this t

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation toprovide them fall

2006-03-22 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:43, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So a mere non-reply does not, it seems to me, connote anything bad; it > may simply mean that the bug report is complete in itself, and well > get attention when I decide I have the attention

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation toprovide them fall

2006-03-21 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some few maintainers are obnoxious and anti-helpful. All of these > have bugs which have had a patch attached to them for a long time > without mantainer comment (not even 'no, this patch doesn't work > because X'). However, not all such bugs reflec

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation toprovide them fall

2006-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: So yes, I believe we need to work on the long-term "ignored" bugs. :) Those are essentially all I work on. It's a good thing I have a thick skin. Some maintainers are genuinely grateful for the assistance, and they're a pleasure to work with. (This includes the X