expectations from the community

Andrey Somov py4fun at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 03:41:34 CST 2012


This is what I read here http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ManagingBugs :

We don't accept patches on the BTS


On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
>
>
> If your patch is meant as a demonstration of the issue, and not as a
> patch meant to go into the codebase, you should probably not send it
> to the mailing list as patchbomb. Instead, open an issue with a good
> title describing the issue, describe the problem in the issue content,
> and then include your patch in the issue, stating that it demonstrates
> a possible fix. This way, you avoid raising the expectation that
> you're going to see through the patch until it's included.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Dirkjan
>
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