I checked patchwork first and that didn't show any clutter patches. I'll add 
the gtk and gst ones after fosdem

Op 2 feb. 2011 om 15:44 heeft Andreas Oberritter <[email protected]> het 
volgende geschreven:

> Hello Andreas,
> 
> I can't answer your technical questions regarding the recipe, because
> I'm not using a clutter/gtk/x11 based distro. I'd like to comment the
> rest of your mail, though.
> 
> On 02/01/2011 08:02 PM, Andreas Mueller wrote:
>> it surprised me to see that Koen committed a new recipe for clutter 1.4.2. 
>> As you might know I was also working on this and sent some pre-release 
>> version here of this (1). What makes me not running in happy mode:
>> 
>> - Many of my previous patches were rejected first because of some commit 
>> message. Here we read 'clutter: add 1.4.2' - cool. Which tests were 
>> performed?
> 
> In general, contrary to patches which modify existing files, I think
> that patches adding new recipes don't need a detailed commit message.
> Still, a message should describe the content of a commit in a suitable
> and understandable way. In my opinion, "<name>: add <version>"
> sufficiently describes any new recipe, unless there's anything special
> about it.
> 
> In this case, I would have preferred glib-gettextize getting mentioned,
> which was added to clutter.inc.
> 
>> Please don't tell me I am invited to change this situation:  Many patches 
>> send by non-commit guys are nit-picked at least for commit message - and 
>> then I read 'clutter: add 1.4.2' for a recipe breaking lots of others.
> 
> Well, shit happens, unfortunately. Hopefully it was tested and worked in
> a different environment. Bug reports like this are needed to make it
> work for as many environments as possible. I've added Koen to CC to
> decrease the chance that your bug report gets lost without Koen
> noticing. I think he didn't mean to offend you in any way with his commit.
> 
> Nit-picking happens frequently, and personally I prefer getting negative
> feedback over no feedback at all. Usually it's not very hard to address
> the complaints, although it can be very frustrating to get only a short
> comment on something you've put a lot of time into. My guess is that
> this has occurred at least once to everybody who contributed to open
> source projects.
> 
>> Sorry for this, but to me the this should have been a hobby for having fun - 
>> but at the moment it's far from
> 
> So let's try to regain some fun after this problem gets solved! You
> shouldn't take it personally.
> 
>> Andreas
>> 
>> (1) 
>> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2011-January/029260.html
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 

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