I know the
feeling that lamed just described.
Many times in the past some of my patches (not something extremely major) would
sit idle on the tracker for a lot of time. Sometimes I would pester some of the
devs to look at them but after a while I feel a little weird to annoy or
disturb some of you with my work.
In my case I was lucky and Bger has committed most of my big patches. (Thanks
Bger! (and of course all the devs))
On the other hand I can truly understand the developers. They have their own
life, problems and code to work with. Add to that the low CVS activity due to
summer, or the feature freeze (which I am not on the side of ending it) and it
only gets worse.
I, for myself, would certainly like to have CVS access but I am not sure if I
got what it takes to, or if I really deserve it. Having access you can avoid
asking or disturbing devs repeatedly but on the other side it is a major
responsibility as to what you are going to commit in the end.
That's why I believe that you, (main developers) should give CVS access to
those that you think they can handle the responsibility and that they will be
able to help on the process of committing bug fixes, patches and eventually new
features.
Having more active developers is surely an asset on moving Rockbox forward,
though choosing who is able to do it, may be a difficult call..
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Liberman Shachar (Lamed) wrote:
> I don't know if this is some feeling many contributors share, but I for once
> feel that many of my work, which I always make sure is worthy gets left out
> of the main cvs branch, and not for a good reason but for the reason nobody
> takes the time having a look at it.
This is how it is and yours are not the only good patches that are still
pending due to us committers focusing too little on patches or simply just not
having enough time in our lifes. But it is also a matter of us focusing on
getting a 3.0 out the door so there should be a focus on fixing the relevant
bugs (only).
Personally, I just haven't had much time for Rockbox for months.
For anyone without CVS commit access who think you have what it takes to get
it, please speak up and we'll take everyone into consideration. We need more
committers.
--
Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/
