On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Ineiev <[email protected]> wrote: > OTOH my experience with PCB suggests that your work is not ignored if > it is not ignored by yourself, and if even you don't need it then it > is probably OK that it is ignored by other people. >
Sure, but it takes at least a bit more effort to make a patch ready to submit to the project (make the code more general purpose as opposed to a quick hack, clean up the code, test with other hid's/workflows, write out a good commit log, wait for sourceforge's slow pages, etc.) And I think if developers discourage their users from doing this (by visibly ignoring patches from others) they are missing out on a vast resource that is a huge part of open source software. Also, if I see a problem with the program, I'm definitely more motivated to fix it if I feel like I could fix it for everyone that uses the program, not just me. If I know it's just going to be for me, there's a good chance I'll just learn to work around it and move on, and that kind of attitude in the users isn't going to help in making the program better. > Kind regards and BTW thanks for your patchs, You're welcome. :) And btw, I felt a little weird making this point as most of the few patches I have sent in have been applied, so I can't really complain much. However, I figured I would offer the suggestion because I still feel reluctant to spend much time on more because of all the others that weren't applied (or explicitely rejected) because I feel like it's a bit of a crap shoot, and if I feel that way, I'm sure I'm not the only one. Jared _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
