Daniel Shahaf <d.s <at> daniel.shahaf.name> writes: > > Gavin, thanks for the information, but I think Daniel Trebbien already > knows this. > > Gavin Beau Baumanis wrote on Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 08:52:05 +1000: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > You should always feel comfortable with "pimping" your own patch > > submissions. > > What you have done is completely fine. > > > > But just in case you don't know - the Subversion project does have a Patch Manager. > > The role of the Patch Manager is to ensure that patch submissions (mostly) by people who don;t have commit > rights to the svn repository don't get forgotten. > > > > Normally, I wait about six or seven days prior to "pinging" the mailing list about a patch that has not > received any review. > > > > It can take a little while to get a patch reviewed because of a few reasons that I am sure you can appreciate. > > * The reviewer needs to have a solid understanding of the subject matter. Some people have appropriate > knowledge of only some parts of the code base. > > * People are busy doing their "real" job / family. > > * People are busy working on their own space of the SVN project. > > > > Let me re-iterate that there is absolutely nothing wrong with you reminding us all about your own patch > submission. > > > > The ultimate aim of this email is that any and all patch submissions are ALWAYS gratefully appreciated by > the SVN project / community. > > Sometimes it just takes a little while to get a patch appropriately reviewed / committed. > > > > > > Gavin "Beau" Baumanis
I read http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/general.html#patches , but I think that it is good to know the preferred number of days to wait before reposting. Gavin, I appreciated your response.
