We have no formal patch submission process.
Fairly often someone presents a patch to us and it
gets no response.
I find this a bit of a tragedy and bad manners.
Anyone not used to linuxcnc development will
be pretty put-off with no response and have in fact
little recourse - other then continue to bug us,
which will probably get - no response :)
While thinking of solutions I came to only two ideas:
- 1) Someone volunteers to follow up patch submissions.
This would mean:
evaluate or get evaluated the idea and the code.
If accepted, push the code to the right place.
email a response of some kind
This would require:
Support from the rest of the developers in opinions,
evaluations and freedom to push stuff that is not thrilling
but hurts nothing.
This is close to what we have other then a volunteer would
make sure this was done for all patches, not just ones he
was interested in. (he could of course delegate if need be)
- 2) patches are added to the linuxcnc-meeting so at least
there is a small discussion on the matter.
possibly find a person to evaluate and push the code at
this meeting
I think our prime problem is that our push-capable developer
group is small so time and expertise become scarce.
I also think that it's tough to evaluate patches that aren't
our interest, when we (as a group) have not really defined
what directions linuxcnc is interested in.
I hate the thought of losing ideas or code because we seem
uninterested or the barrier is too high.
Opinions?
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