Gavin Simpson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 20:22 +0100, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > >> Greg Snow wrote: >> >>> If it is fairly trivial to implement then go ahead and implement it, >>> >> patches are always welcome. >> >> now that's *not* true. not so long ago i submitted a patch improving on >> Prof Brian Ripley's ad hoc fix to grep, and it was silently ignored. >> > > Hi Wacek, > > I recall your posting with patches, but I don't recall whether these > were done via the bug repository. If they weren't,
they weren't. originally, i answered Prof Brian Ripley's post announcing the fix (which was sent to r help), and since it was ignored, i resent the fix to r-devel. if this is not enough, it would be great if i had been informed about it. i've seen many bug reports rejected, and this was not really a bug fix -- at least not immediate, though it might prevent future bugs due to the distributed nature of the original fix. > then can I suggest > you file a bug under the WishList category (or if your patch was in > response to a bug also sent through the bug repository, attach/reply to > that with the correct PR#) in the bug repository? At least then someone > on R core will have to do something with it - even if they subsequently > ignore it (which one hopes would not happen). > > If the patch was just posted to R-Devel, then given the torrent of > emails people tend to get these days things can get overlooked in there > for no other reason than people are busy. > that would be a reasonable explanation. i haven't complained. > It would be a shame indeed if your contribution was not even > acknowledged just because it got overlooked. > it was not a big deal, more a matter of style and coderedundancy than of correctness. for myself, i don't need it to get through. i'll give it another try. thanks for the response. vQ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
