----- Original Message ----- From: "Gus Heck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Submissions and Patches
> I want to be clear; I do not mean to suggest that the commiters are not > working hard, or that nothing new is going in. However, I have the > feeling that the patches that are getting old are doing so because > commiters deal with patches that interest them personally first. I'd say we deal with the patches that we can test first. The VSS/Sos stuff is on my todo list not because I have any interest in them, but because jesse has a track record of making good changes to these tasks, and I trust him, even though I am blissfully incapable of testing either. > One can > hardly blame them since they ARE *volunteers*. I'm hoping we can find a > volunteer that is willing to say "I'll try to make sure even the booring > patches get looked at and responded to within X ammount of time." (note > that I said responded to not committed) point taken. > > Of course it is not a matter of blindly commiting. (shiver at the thought) funnily enough I did just that on axis last week; added castor support with enough patches to make sure everything built, then left it to whoever used it to write the docs. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
