On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Jeremy Thomerson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there anything special I need to do after submitting a patch for a bug so
> that it gets included?  Currently I have three patches submittted to random
> bugs / requests, two of which have been there for quite some time with no
> comment and noone applying them.
>
> WICKET-1513 - bug that I think the patch is safe and should be committed
> WICKET-1916 - bug that I think the patch is safe and should be committed

this patch messes with url processing which is very fragile in wicket.
how extensively have you tested this because there are probably ten
bugs open right now for similar issues. we fix one and another one
pops up, so we are very careful when it comes to messing with stuff
like this. are you sure that patch didnt break any of the other
hundred usecases that have to do with ajax and ie6 on tomcat vs ie7 on
jetty? i hope juergen tested it extensively before applying.

> WICKET-1883 - I could see why this one may not be committed - it's huge, and
> Igor's already said it would probably wait until 1.5 (which is a shame,
> because I'm sure by then the patch won't work any more).

it wasnt applied because like you said you havent tested it
extensively. so the burden is on us and we would much rather work on
bugs then things marked as "wish". another reason it wasnt applied was
because we now have plans to rewrite that part of wicket entirely in
1.5.

> WICKET-1567

this wasnt applied yet because it has to do with 1.3 and compatibility
issues. are you sure there are no deployed wicket applications out
there that will break after this patch is applied because they depend
on existing behavior?

> Anyway - since I worked to fix those bugs, I don't want to see them fall
> through the cracks and would like to see them make it into future releases.

sure, but you also have to look at it from out point of view. you
write the patch which takes x time. we have to maintain that code
after you are done, which takes x*1000 time. so just because there is
a patch doesnt mean it will be applied. if you really want to help you
should concentrate on bugs for trunk. if you want to work on a "wish"
type issue or a 1.3  bug that changes runtime behavior you should let
it be known on the dev@ so we can make sure it is something we will
want to maintian.

thanks for your contributions.

-igor

>
> Thanks!
>
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> Jeremy Thomerson
> http://www.wickettraining.com
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