On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:59, Martyn Russell <mar...@lanedo.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 09:54 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:16, Matthias Clasen >> > That may be, but 'disable this random set of widgets I don't need' >> > patches have very little chance of going upstream. >> >> Why do they have little chance of going upstream? > > The maintenance overhead is just not worth it and that's most likely the > reason. When projects get to the size of GTK+ you really notice this > overhead. > > Also, ultimately maintainers have to spend time managing it so they get > the final say ;)
Yeah, I get it, but here's the point: it isn't nice when a maintainer says "unlikely" without giving even one reason, leaving the rest of us to guess (EG, "that's most likely the reason"). -- blog: http://tshepang.tumblr.com _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
