On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 09:34:52PM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Tue, 3/8/11, Chris McCormick chris@mccormick.cx wrote:
Do you think that what you have written above is likely to increase or decrease your chances of getting those patches accepted more quickly? I ask this question sincerely.
I think a better question would be put to Miller or Hans, or the other admins-- can someone please explain how the patch review process works?
Good question. I was happy to read IOhanne's reply.
Not only is the patch in question is now over a month old with no signs of the review having begun, but it was submitted to the tracker in direct response to a user's request for the feature. If there's a problem with it there should at least be a relevant comment by this point.
This is not realistic. If you look at any large FLOSS project, patches lie dormant, are ignored, are rejected for the wrong reasons all of the time. Submit a patch to the Linux kernel and see what happens. Most likely it will be silently dropped.
In my experience, the best way to get a patch accepted in most projects is to invest time in engaging socially. The reality is that often the onus is on the submitter to advocate for their patch. In this case a sensible place to do that would be pd-dev list. Demanding that your patch is more important than the other things a volunteer-maintainer might need to do with their time (like real life engagements), and is more important than other patches in the queue seems like an unlikely way to get patches accepted.
Likewise if you somehow imply that the maintainer owes you something and that they are not doing some kind of job properly. The people on the other end have given up thousands of hours of their time as volunteers and released all of that work for free, and they are often busy with other things in their lives. Is it really so much to ask of eachother a little patience and respect?
Seriously, I find it weird that I even have to write this.
I speak only for myself and my own observations. I have no idea what any of the other people involved think about this (except IOhannes who replied more succinctly than me, and with whom I agree).
Cheers,
Chris.