Re: Unreviewed patches - is the boat sinking?
- From: Eduard Braun <Eduard Braun2 gmx de>
- To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Unreviewed patches - is the boat sinking?
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:13:19 +0200
Am 13.04.2014 09:34, schrieb Joanna Larsen:
Hundreds or thousands of people have taken the time to create a patch,
submit it and then heard absolutely nothing back. Any free software
project would crave for even this many contributions alone.
As an "ordinary user" I'm afraid to say that this is exactly the
impression I got. I only contributed to one project so far and others
might be better, but that doesn't improve the situation at all for me.
For this particular project (libRSVG) I wrote a patch, but I never got
any reply from any of the developers - despite multiple attempts to
reach them via bugzilla / personal mail / this mailing list. Also other
people had no success (neither with my patch nor with their own). Even
Wikimedia Foundation's "bug wrangler" André Klapper tried to get into
contact with the devs since the patches (and general activity in the
project) is of interest to all WMF-Wikis since they use libRSVG as
their sole SVG renderer.
Regarding my (admittedly unrepresentative) experience there definitely
is some need (at least for some projects) to give casual contributors a
way to get their code reviewed and submitted.
Regards
Eduard
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