On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 22:48 +1000, Hal Ashburner wrote: > > > > > This seems to me like pretty good evidence that the > maintainers of > > "gnome-utils" haven't got the time required to look after > the package > > properly. I'm sure they don't mean to be so rude to the > people who spent > > their time fixing bugs but ultimately intentions alone don't > get things > > done. > > > no, you're wrong: I'm being rude to you. > > whom I've never heard of. > > Hello Emmanuele! > I hope this mail finds you well.
evidently sarcasm produced without my morning intake of caffeinated products is not detectable. well, my fault. now, with the correct amount of caffeine working its magic through my synapses, let's start from scratch: your patches are very much welcome; if I'm too busy - as it happens right now - to actually review them, a welcome course of action is sending them either directly to me or to the gnome-utils mailing list, which (without detracting from gnome-love) is the correct place to send them - as well as eventual pokeage to the maintainer(s). not every maintainer follows gnome-love - it was sheer dumb luck that you also found me here. personal mail, or mailing lists with low traffic like gnome-utils-list are far more easier to get a maintainer attention than bugzilla emails; I receive between 100 and 200 emails a day from bugzilla - and even though I might read them in real time, I often loose them in the mailbox. as I wrote in the other email, though, not only are patches welcome but also new maintainers for other sub-modules of gnome-utils; you need to stick around, triage bugs, implement patches and then ask for a SVN account, so that you can commit your fixes or code by yourself. a very welcome option would be using a distributed revision control system, like bzr or git, to locally "fork" gnome-utils, work on fixing multiple bugs or implementing new features and then send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the request to pull from that repository and merge the work. this will make your job a lot easier because you won't need special permissions, and will make my job easier because then I'll be able to review multiple patches as a whole. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
