Contributions silently ignored - now what?

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Thu Nov 29 11:32:16 CST 2007


On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:20:29AM +0100, Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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?

The relevant people were too busy. This happens way too much lately,
I'm afraid. We've all got bills to pay, after all. There's also a
diffusion of responsibility problem: the various people with commit
access assume that someone else more familiar with the code in
question will respond. But that person may in fact be completely
unavailable.

For a while Benoit was doing an excellent job of scouring the list for
any and all patches, but he may have been doing that to avoid working
on his PhD. And as it turns out, he's actually the expert on your
bundle stuff.

So please, do retry, and don't take it personally. And perhaps someone
can volunteer as patch sweeper, making sure that each patch at least
gets a response and/or cc:ed to the right person.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.


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