Re: How long should it take to fix a obvious memory leak?

[Ma Xiaojun <damage3025 gmail com>]

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Luis Menina <liberforce freeside fr> wrote:
> Could you please avoid getting that harsh in all your messages? I think
> I'm not the only getting upset by the way you handle communication.

Focus on the bug, rather than how it is shown to you, please.

> You'll find unreviewed patches all over the GNOME modules, that's a
> fact. People are busy fixing other bugs, or busy with their own life, or
> just stop maintaining things. I'm not a huge fan of people saying that
> everything is ok, always keeping happy-happy, and not facing problems.
> But using stop energy that relentlessly doesn't help either.

Are suggesting that GNOME are maintained by a group of hobbyist?
How to prove your seriousness about your distributed software?

> What if you were the maintainer of that module? Wouldn't you get
> offended by someone publicly trying to put shame on you for not getting
> things done fast enough? I would.

It's indeed a shame.
Whether you take the offence or not is your problem not mine.

> Please directly contact the maintainers of a module before sending this
> kind of message to the d-d-l, and try some psychology: asking somebody
> to do something works much better if you kindly ask, and thank people,
> rather than if you imply that they either are morons or slackers.
>
> GNOME is a community, GNOME is people. Smashing people the ones against
> the others helps nobody...

I don't think it would be better to put finger towards some particular
person. I just want this problem fixed, indeed.