On Jul 6, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:

> In the past I've had to ping the dev list with an "include patch XYZ
> please" message....

Yeah... doesn't that strike you as a problem though?  Maybe I should dig up all 
my issues and start bugging the dev list with "Commit this, pretty please?" 
messages.  Or not and they will say in the JIRA graveyard.

> But I've just assigned it to myself, I'll see if I can get it
> committed, I'm new enough at the process that I need the practice....

I noticed, thanks.

> Best
> Erick
> 
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Smiley, David W. <dsmi...@mitre.org> wrote:
>> How do committers recommend that patch contributors (like me) get their 
>> patches committed?  At the moment I'm thinking of this one:
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2535
>> This is a regression bug. I found the bug, I added a patch which fixes the 
>> bug and tested that it was fixed.  The tests are actually new tests that 
>> tested code that wasn't tested before.  I put the "fix version" in JIRA as 
>> 3.3 at the time I did this, because it was ready to go.  Well 3.3 came and 
>> went, and the version got bumped to 3.4.  There are no processes in place 
>> for committers to recognize completed patches.  I think that's a problem.  
>> It's very discouraging, as the contributor.  I think prior to a release and 
>> ideally at other occasions, issues assigned to the next release number 
>> should actually be examined.    Granted there are ~250 of them on the Solr 
>> side: 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+SOLR+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+AND+fixVersion+%3D+12316683+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC
>>  And some initial triage could separate the wheat from the chaff.
>> 
>> ~ David Smiley
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