a simple request: apply all outstanding patches.
Natanael Copa
natanael.copa at gmail.com
Thu May 18 08:23:06 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 07:46 +0100, Rob Sullivan wrote:
> On 17/05/06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> > I'm not an ideal maintainer. Not even close. I'm not good at the social
> > aspects of it (I started out by having a personality conflict with Vladimir,
> > and I suspect I've managed to annoy everyone on this list at least once by
> > now), I drop patches on the floor, I post too much and outright _flood_ the
> > darn mailing list (hey, I type fast), I haven't got enough time to spend on
> > patch review (more energy than time, it's _exhausting_ reading this stuff
> > with a fine tooth comb), I'm not patient enough, there are areas (like
> > makefiles) where I really don't know what I'm doing...
> >
> > Unfortunately, the reason I'm doing it is there isn't anybody else. I put a
> > lot of time in this, I care deeply about what's best for the project, and I'm
> > doing the best job I can.
>
> What more can anyone ask for? Personally, I think you're doing a damn
> fine job keeping up with everything as well as you do
I agree!
...
> Surely there must be some OSS project out there that has been through
> the same situation and found/wrote a decent bugtracker...
trac, bugzilla, are alternatives. patchwork that Paul Fox mentioned
seems also very interesting. I'm sure there are more.
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Natanael Copa
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