In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, L. David Baron wrote: > 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.
FWIW, I've seen Ken bugging a variety of people on IRC on several occasions recently. The result has been a variety of core developers agreeing that there is nobody suitable to look at those patches, and that the situation sucks. > 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. Not that I have any serious involvement in this stuff, but I don't see a new mailing list is going to help... which core developers willing to step in would be on the list that aren't already reading the newsgroup and/or on IRC? -- Michael
