Ibukun Olumuyiwa wrote:
On Wed 20 Aug 2003, Cristalle Azundris Sabon wrote:
The Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
A little more than a month ago, I sent a small and comparatively unimportant patch to the list. It appears to have been ignored. Ordinarily, I'd take that as meaning "this thing has no value, don't bother us with such twaddle", but given the almost complete
lack of traffic at the time I'm not entirely sure the patch even
got noticed.
What is the appropriate thing to do in such circumstances?
While I can't tell with absolute certainty (as you did not mention what the patch was about) what happened in that particular
instance, it usually means people looked at it, and everybody
thought it was in somebody else's bailiwick. I know that especially
with e16 patches I sometimes think, oh, this looks useful, I hope
Kim will bless it. IOW, there was probably no offence intended,
sorry if we came across as rude, input being ignored like that it
obviously less than ideal. : (
I don't have anything particular to say to this that isn't better said below, but I didn't want to ignore someone being so apologetic. ^_^
Did a searchback for his mail. The patch was for Esetroot, and was supposed to fix a perceivedly unintuitive behavior in flipping or something like that. So that's probably in Kim's domain, but I know
he has been very busy with E16 over the past couple of months so I'm
not surprised if a small patch ended up unnoticed.
Understandable.
What the patch was supposed to do was actually add horizontal/vertical flipping capability when scaling an image to fit the screen. There are a couple of problems I saw with what I did, which I helf-expected comment on whether or not it was considered an acceptable patch; the lack of such is part of the reason why I wasn't sure it had been noticed at the time.
The other reason is that there was a five-day gap between my post and the next, and no response to the other (also thread-opening) post immediately preceding mine, such that I wasn't sure for a while if the list was even live.
Personally I don't think there's any harm trying to call attention to a submitted patch if it hasn't been replied to. I remember committing someone's Entrance patch some time ago and forgetting to let them know that it was done already, until the person complained months later.
The principle in that first sentence breaks down into nagging past a certain point, though. ^_^
I appreciate the attitude, and I thank you for your attention.
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