Don't get me wrong, I am well aware that many people already do a great job by just identifying such bugs and finding solutions to them. It's just that, eventually, those solutions also need to make it into actual releases if people are to experience OpenAFS as a mature piece of software. It will always be an issue to port OpenAFS to new platforms, but I bet this will be a lot easier if starting with reasonably clean code for the existing ones.
The only reasons that patches do not make it into the source repository are:
* the person who wrote the patch fails to send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* the gatekeeper who reviews the patch has issues with it and can't get them resolved with the person who wrote the patch
* neither the gatekeeper nor the the person who wrote the patch has confidence that the patch does not break other things. This is usually do to lack of access to a platform to build and test on; or lack of feedback from others on the list indicating that the patch does in fact solve a problem without causing others
Jeffrey Altman
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