On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 02:46:21PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:00:38 +0300
> Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > > you don't need to subscribe, there's usually an AUTHORS file with emails 
> > > you 
> > > can use...
> > As I said, I thought that maintainers was responsible to do it since they
> > follow all the bug progress after all. So according to you I should do all 
> > the
> > work. Tempting
> 
> When you take on the task of fixing a bug in a package you don't maintain,
> you are responsible for the whole task, not just the part you want to do.
> You essentially become the maintainer for that change.  So just do what you
> would do if it really was your package.
> 
> And really I don't care if you upstream the patch or not, but when the
> maintainer politely asks you to do so the correct response is "okay", not "do
> it yourself".
> 
> 
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You misunderstood me. I never said "do it yourself". I said that I didn't know
that I have to do it myself and that I will do it from now on

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