Re: [gnome-love] About Me - Change Password dialog suggestions

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

Johannes H. Jensen wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:09 +0100, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
>
> > Johannes,
> >
> > As Claudio suggested the best way is to file this in bugzilla. The 
> > about-me maintainers will then automatically see it.
>
>
> I posted a bug (#328754) about this on the bugzilla. However the
> maintainer marked it as a duplicate of bug #321567. Though I see that
> the two bugs are somewhat similar in some points, I don't think they are
> near a duplicate of each other. I read through #321567 before posting my
> new bug, thinking my suggestions didn't fit into the bug.

They are in my opinion also the same bug. Probably would have been 
better to have added your proposal to #321567. Just suggest your user 
interface improvement in that bug.

Also do not put everything in one bug report. Using a different backend 
should be another bug report.

> > Furthermore it really helps if you already come with the patch. People 
> > file zillions of requests and ideas. Maintainers and developers usually 
> > don't go through bugzilla for looking what feature to implement next. 
> > They usually implement what they find important or nice to do.
>
>
> I never asked the maintainer to implement it. In fact, I said I would be
> happy to work on it myself. What I asked for was directions/advice/etc.
> I wanted to start a discussion about it, because I'm unsure how to
> approach the problem.

Sorry, I meant to say that if you submit a small patch with a small 
improvement it is easier attention of the maintainer (they are usually 
very busy and receive loads of bugmail). If you start submitting patches 
maintainers start to know you and because of that it is also easier to 
get directions/advice.

Jaap