On Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:17:21 UTC-4, Freek Dijkstra wrote: > > I'm a bit at loss as to why. Is my patch flawed? Is this not relevant > enough to fix? Is Sphinx a dead project? > > Sorry for my questions. I'm happy to contribute to Sphinx, but if the > project is dead, at least I know and can find an alternative. >
I think going from "Sphinx doesn't seem to be responding to my pull request" to "maybe the project is dead" seems a very large leap... if you check the list of accepted pull requests, it seems to me that they've integrated a couple dozen over since last fall. Checking the commit history seems to indicate several things: there has been a fair amount of recent activity, (b) much of it consisting of branch merging/integration, and (c) activity in the commit history seems to happen in clumps. If I had to infer behaviour from this sketchy evidence, I'd say it looks like a codebase that's maintained by a small-ish group of trusted committers that do work off-line and then carefully meld it back into a mainline, trying to keep it as stable as possible. It's possible that this project just doesn't operate in the mode of "we'll integrate any simple patch from anyone, with rapidity" for one reason or another. Of course, I could be wrong. But I'm not sure I see much evidence for my view being any less correct than your characterization: let's not jump to conclusions. -- V -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-dev" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sphinx-dev/-/BZsQCicTox4J. To post to this group, send email to sphinx-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sphinx-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev?hl=en.
