Contributions silently ignored - now what?

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> Were the relevant people too busy to notice? Do I just try again?
> Isn't that rude? How long do I wait for them to appear in the commit
> log messages before I retry?

Personally, I've gotten the best results by logging onto #mercurial on 
irc.freenode.net and talk to developers there. It allows more/faster 
interaction, which can help when the patch is not obvious at a first glance.

That said, the mailing list should of course be tended to. Asking again 
is not considered rude, I think, provided you wait a few days before 
doing so. Also, it does seem that many of the developers have been very 
busy over the past few weeks, so some things may have slipped.

(I'm just speaking as someone who is on IRC a lot and has gotten a 
couple of patches accepted.)

Cheers,

Dirkjan