On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 20:22 +0100, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > Greg Snow wrote: > > If it is fairly trivial to implement then go ahead and implement it, > patches are always welcome. > > now that's *not* true. not so long ago i submitted a patch improving on > Prof Brian Ripley's ad hoc fix to grep, and it was silently ignored.
Hi Wacek, I recall your posting with patches, but I don't recall whether these were done via the bug repository. If they weren't, then can I suggest you file a bug under the WishList category (or if your patch was in response to a bug also sent through the bug repository, attach/reply to that with the correct PR#) in the bug repository? At least then someone on R core will have to do something with it - even if they subsequently ignore it (which one hopes would not happen). If the patch was just posted to R-Devel, then given the torrent of emails people tend to get these days things can get overlooked in there for no other reason than people are busy. It would be a shame indeed if your contribution was not even acknowledged just because it got overlooked. G <snip /> -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%
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