On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:36:55 -0600, Matt T. Proud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not want to belabor this issue and make any more of you angry, but > I do think that what you have posed here is still less-than-ideal, for I > have, on countless occasions, submitted and seen other people's patches > go neglected for eons in bugzilla. > > It is very discouraging. Whose fault is it? > > Please, do not tell me this is a non-issue. How do you reconcile one's > help and dedication with the reality that patches go ignored for an > unreasonable period--or more often permanently ignored?
That is a legitimate problem for some modules that needs to be addressed (many modules are great at reviewing patches, but some are really awful, and there's quite a few that could still use improvement). Here are the ideas I've had to address it: - Write a report to track how maintainers are doing at patch review (done -- see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/patch-diligence-report.cgi; patch-status.cgi and patch-report.cgi are also useful), - Make it easier to review patches (see bug 141386; also, documenting the statuses would be useful--bug 141118) - It'd be helpful to make it easier to query on patch statuses; we have some reports to help at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/reports.cgi#maintainers but it'd be better to have something integrated into query.cgi (despite how huge that already is...) - Implement patch nagging (bug 138039) - Add a miscellanous "see-comments" patch state (two reasons: (1) sometimes patches don't match any of the given review states and thus maintainers might not mark them, (2) sometimes the words of the patch states sound too harsh and maintainers would rather add nice comments so that they don't discourage contributors instead of marking the patch as "rejected"; in particular, most "unreviewed" metacity patches have actually been reviewed and this state would help a lot) - Add a way of automatically marking a module as unmaintained if maintainers don't respond to a sufficient percentage of patches and warning people who add patches to such modules. Anyway, those are my ideas so far that I will try to tackle as time permits. Luis has also sent some general emails to d-d-l and planet gnome to try to help get things to change. Other ideas are welcome. Assistance even more so. Elijah _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
