On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:38:03AM -0700, Josh Susser wrote:
> 
> On Jun 1, 2006, at 7:03 AM, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> 
> >>What is the current process the core team uses for accepting patches
> >>and handling tickets? There are a few loose notes somewhere about
> >>this, but it might be good to publish this somewhere so people know
> >>what to expect.
> >
> >There's no formal procedure per se. The ticket has to be tested,
> >follow style conventions, be backwards compatible, and hopefully
> >something that has meaning for most people most of the time. But all
> >of these rules go out the window some times, if there's a stroke of
> >genius found in the submission.
> 
> That's good to know, and pretty much what I expected to hear too.   
> But I'm curious about how much people use the Trac reports.  Does  
> anyone really sit down and look at the Unprocessed Patches report to  
> figure out what patches to look at?  If someone submits a patch with  
> the e.g. "tiny" keyword, that puts it in the Tiny report - does that  
> mean it might not get, um, processed?  I'm just now writing up some  
> notes on keywords and it would be useful to tell folks whether adding  
> those keywords helps or hinders their effords.

I use the reports but not religiously. I use them once-in-a-whilely. On the
occasion when I do, though, it is appreciated and allows me to quickly
process a lot of tickets.

marcel
-- 
Marcel Molina Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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