Am Mittwoch, den 11.05.2005, 16:44 -0600 schrieb Elijah Newren: > On 5/11/05, Samuel Abels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have there been any attempts to identify which non-maintainers > > contributed more than ~3(,4,5,whatever) patches, so that a maintainer > > who urgently needs help can ask them whether they may be interested to > > become a co-maintainer? They don't need to contribute much new code, > > simply accepting patches seems to be great help already. > > Hehe, take a look at > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/metacity/ChangeLog?view=markup and check > for occurrences of my name. I still can't accept patches (well, if > it's "obvious and Rob and I agree" then Havoc says its okay...). > Having contributed just a handful of patches isn't enough to become a > co-maintainer, typically.
Well, then maybe it's time to rethink those policies. ;) > > I noticed that in the last two or three months the number of unreviewed > > patches has been growing rapidly; when I checked a few months ago the > > count was at ~500, now we are close to breaking the 900 barrier. > > Evolution and a bunch of other related products were imported, and I > believe that may account for much if not most of that increase. Oh, right. > I'm working on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/patch-nag.cgi, with > the idea of periodicially emailing people with a condensed form of > whats in that page and a link to that page... Yep, that is *very* nice ;). -Samuel _______________________________________________ Gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
