a simple request: apply all outstanding patches.

[Natanael Copa]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 08:18 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Natanael Copa wrote:
> 
> > If you read the messages in this list latest days you would have noticed
> > that:
> 
> i *have* been reading.
> 
> > 1) It seems like Landley is the only one reviewing and commiting patch
> > contributions.
> > 2) there are *many* patches posted to this list.
> > 3) Those patches needs to be reviewd and tested - people are fast on
> > complainging if anything anything gets commited that breaks the build.
> > 4) Landley is  doing as good as he can, as fast as he can.
> > 5) It seems like Landley has a life outside busybox. (which is good)
> > 6) The workload is probably a slightly more than he (or anyone?) can
> > handle, or at least close to the limit.
> 
> i appreciate all that but, at the same time, if i'm *encouraged* to
> submit patches, and i *submit* patches, i eventually need some
> feedback to understand that those patches are going to be acted upon
> at some point.  otherwise, i start losing interest in submitting.

I appreciate you submitted them. Even if they get rejected, I have the
possibility to search the archives and find them if those should be a
problem for me.

thanks!

> and, as i mentioned, given that there is now a target date for the
> next release, this would seem to be the perfect time to work through
> that backlog and deal with all outstanding submitted patches, one way
> or the other.

That is probably also why he announced a feature freeze. Maybe we could
get a list of things/patches that are supposed to get into the 1.2
release, so we can check if our earlier submitted patches are forgotten
or not? If we find anything missing on the list, we maybe could ask for
a re-evaluation if the patch should be included into the 1.2, put on
hold til after the 1.2 release or rejected.

/nat