On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 16:25 Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Every maintainer has the freedom to use his choice of process. Some > have a github project where you can file an issue or pull request, some > just use email. Enforcing a certain way of working will increase the > bureden on maintainers, which for some people is already a bit much. > Indeed, that's the maintainer's prerogative, but some processes are more efficient that others. And what is easier? Ask n number of people to change their ways (contributors), or ask one person? (maintainer). > So my comment was true, it's just that you are not listening to what > > I'm actually saying. > > > > And BTW it was a miracle I saw this mail, as I saw it from the web > > interface. I'm a member of this group but I don't receive mail from > > it. I guess there isn't a habit of replying to the person you are > > actually replying. > > I'm actually CC'ing the sender (and some people don't like getting the > message twice). > That's what I expect to be the normal behavior. Mailing lists managers allow you to specify if you in particular don't want to receive duplicates, but it seems GoogleGroups doesn't have that option, they just do the sane thing by default. > I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm just trying to to illuminate the fact > > that my experience as a random patch contributor has been anything but > > smooth. I contribute to many projects and rarely do I experience such > > issues. > > Everbody here is volunteering and we'll have to live with slow responses > and various ways of mainaining runtime files. > Sure. Slow responses are one thing, years of delay are another, no response (functionally) is something else, and for the contributions to drop completely flat... That's objectively not good. Cheers. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAMP44s1Gvn9FTbXo_tMUEN%2B_T3%2BKx7aiqthVhdC%2B-HES49An0A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
