On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 13:54 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Joanna Larsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I'm new to Gnome. Some time ago I started looking into the inner workings of
> > it. Reading the source code, learning from it. Coming up with a few ideas.
> > So I jumped on Bugzilla eager to fix bugs and contribute features.
> >
> > Until I found this [1]. No it's not the list of open bug reports, it's the
> > list of unreviewed patches. As of now that's 6138 in total.
> >
> > Hundreds or thousands of people have taken the time to create a patch,
> > submit it and then heard absolutely nothing back. Any free software project
> > would crave for even this many contributions alone.
> 
> It would be nice if you didn't have such an alarmist subject.
> Clearly, the boat isn't sinking when there are so many active
> maintainers.  Your search isn't quite accurate as you've indicated
> because you've pulled in all the GNOME 2 components like
> gnome-applets.  To normalize it you should get a list of components
> that is part of the GNOME 3 platform and then search against them.

To be fair, the report is provided by us _as is_, and it does not
contain any explanation because it is usually consumed in each product
description (see describe.cgi).

If anything, this seems to be a good opportunity to improve the report
to avoid future misunderstandings (via adding a custom report add or
something else).

We don't need to be defensive with a newcomer who genuinely is trying to
help (at least that seems to me), even though we might disagree with the
wording.

That said, Joanna: you can take a look at the report's code in:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bgo-maintainers/bugzilla.gnome.org/3.4/view/head:/extensions/patch-report/lib/PatchReport/Hooks.pm

If you need a hand on any of this items, I could give you a hand and/or
point out the right people to ask for this.

-- 
Germán Poo-Caamaño
http://calcifer.org/

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