From: "Jose Alberto Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As far as I can tell very few committers are > looking for patches in Bugzilla. You see all > these long discussions, but once someone files > a patch it linguers there and nothing happens. > This is what I think people are complainint > about. > > I myself filed a bug [http://nagoya.apache.org/ > bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7045], fix it, and put > the patch on Bugzilla. It has never been this > slow for patches I had submitted in the past. > No aknowledgement, no comments, nothing. > Just dead silence. > > This is the kind of thing that frustrate people.
What frustrates me as a committer: 1. Bug reports that are not proven as bugs (using Junit tests). 2. Patches to bugs/enhancement requests that do not contain Junit tests that prove that the patch fixes the bug, by providing JUnit tests that fail before patch is applied and pass after patch is applied. 3. Patches that do not care about backwards compatibility. 4. Patches that rely on the committer to perform documentation patches, if any. 5. Patches to tasks that I cannot compile myself or execute myself because of dependencies on external tools. I know it may be asking for a lot, but, if the patch contains lots of tests, documentation patches and the code patch as well, it would get committed faster. There is also this 'Noise' thing :-) If you submit a patch to BugZilla/ant-dev, please keep reminding ant-dev about it till it gets accepted or rejected. But you know that already ;-) With all this said, I did do a sweep of BugZilla patches a month or so back, IIRC and applied all of those that I was comfortable with - so I would say patches haven't been lingering there for a very long time. > Jose Alberto ********************************************** * You are asking for big trouble and a big * * bill when lawyers are the only ones who * * understand the law. * ********************************************** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
