On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 09:34 +0200, Joanna Larsen wrote:
Hello. I'm new to Gnome. Some time ago I started looking into the inner workings of it. Reading the source code, learning from it. Coming up with a few ideas. So I jumped on Bugzilla eager to fix bugs and contribute features. Until I found this [1]. No it's not the list of open bug reports, it's the list of unreviewed patches. As of now that's 6138 in total. 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.
Hi, The numbers have to be evaluated considering the big picture. The number might be small, fair or big depending on what you are assessing and with respect to what, number of projects involved, just no name a few. For example, how many patches have been actually reviewed? I quick report shows me that 55554 have been reviewed. That would mean the patches are not ignored, but maybe that more hands are needed to review them, update them (like check if they still apply), etc. I would agree that there is room for improvement, but this is not as negative as it seems to be by looking one single number. Regards, -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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