On Wednesday 2003-09-17 23:49 +0000, Ken Herron wrote: > I don't want to make this a rant about how my patches are being ignored, > but clearly there's a problem here. The module has problems, but the > people willing to work on it are being ignored. The module lacks an owner, > but there's no way for a would-be volunteer to prove (or develop) the > expertise with it. The core developers see no owner and nobody working > on it, and call the module dead. > > How can we break this logjam?
Sometimes the best solution is to bug people, or perhaps to bug different people. The people getting mail from the bug, or from whom you've requested review, may not be the right people. As long as the ratio of bugging to useful work that you do doesn't go too high, people shouldn't be annoyed. Maybe we should have a mailing list for new contributors who are having trouble getting reviews, or something like that. It could have a bunch of core developers who are willing to step in, and at least find the right reviewers. Or perhaps we should just recommend posting to the appropriate newsgroup, since your post here should lead to some results... -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
