Hi! On Thursday 17 April 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> sending a > >> patch to a major component in Linux and getting a "good work" in reply > >> is definitely a welcome change. > > > > Let me venture a wild guess: maybe it *was* a good work? ;-) > > Even so, most major projects I know (Wine, Postgresql, Linux) the > highest form of compliment you are likely to receive is that they commit > your patch to the revision control. Getting actual feedback if it's good > is rare. Even getting actual feedback if it's bad isn't very common. >
That's not the case for Subversion ( http://subversion.tigris.org/ ). They generally commented on any patch I sent to the developer mailing list or bug tracker. Sometimes I had to revise my patch because of very small things, including trailing whitespace, or improper indentation. Normally, I received a notification if a patch I sent was (finally) placed into the version control system, possibly with a thanks. I also received this: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-08/0476.shtml I later on stopped actively contributing patches to Subversion because I felt that it was already in very good shape, and no longer need my active help. Nevertheless, I still sometimes write patches for their links page to add a good link I'm encountering and send it (and it is either applied or dropped down). I really liked the online atmosphere of Subversion, and they certainly made co-developers or co-contributers welcome. I should also note that when I contributed patches to the perl5 (core) documents (perl*.pod) I normally received replies that requested me to correct typos, formatting style, trailing whitespace, etc. My patches were eventually applied, normally with a small thank you. My bug reports (which I am too incapable to fix myself, but was still capable enough to discover) were also usually dealt with. I had some other, less positive experiences, but don't recall them as vividly, and would rather not comment on them. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ I'm not an actor - I just play one on T.V. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
