Contributions silently ignored - now what?

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

Vladimir, it's a patchbomb:

http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2007-November/thread.html#3446

-peter

On Nov 29, 2007 12:03 PM, Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first of all, I'm not hg developer, so can't help you here directly.
>
> > I'm stumped. I tried to contribute a few patches. Some fixes, some
> > enhancements, some which would need a bit of discussion. One trivial
> > patch got included. The rest was silently ignored. What is the message
> > I am supposed to get?
>
> Yeah, I know that feeling. But since people are mostly doing opensource
> in their free time, it's hard to push. I have several programs modified
> to my liking, and I stopped bother to try to push them back. Instead I
> created system which keeps my patches up to date with upstream (search
> goose in this alias).
>
> Especially in the early stages of a project (like mercurial now), when
> there's quite a lot of changes, one can be forgotten easily.
>
> [...]
>
> > If I failed, where?
> >
> > Here's are the contributions that were ignored:
> >
> >   http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2007-November/003446.html
>
> I checked the link, and there does not seem to be patch attached. Maybe
> the web alias interface can't handle patches ? If I check the two bugs
> referenced in the mail, there also is not seen any proposed fix. So it
> might increase your chances if you comment in the relevant bugs.
>
> Good luck
>
> --
>         Vlad
>
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