2008/10/3 Paul Louden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not so sure. There's a list of patches that get brought up, again and > again, and are considered (by many) the most important ones. Bitmap resize, > Multifont, Viewport Lists,
These arnt in because they arnt done "correctly" > > If we asked authors "post the patch to the tracker, but if you think it's > ready and aren't receiving comments, and are willing to address any > problems, bring it to us on the mailing list" it provides a way for *every* > patch to get extra attention, and at the same time we'd see if there are > volunteers to actually fix it or not. > There is nothing stopping people doing this currently, I have tried this a few times and get little extra attention. Also it will encourage people to not both with the tracker, they might just post to the ml. Or you start having the same discussions in 2 places. Something we could try is if we can agree on a few patches which we definatly want in, is link them prominently on the front page somewhere? "The community is currently trying to get these patches into svn. If you can help please do so!"...? Jonathan
