Re: [gnome-love] Does gnome hate me and want me to go away?

[Hal Ashburner <hal ashburner info>]

Thanks Ken,
All the best.
Hal

Ken VanDine wrote:
> Hi Hal,
>
> Thanks for submitting the patch, it is appreciated.  There is a ton of
> patches in bugzilla that need review/validation.  This is exactly why
> the PatchSquad really needs to turn up the heat.  I will test this patch
> and comment on it.  Hopefully we can get it merged.
>
> Really... we do love you :)
>
> Thanks,
> --Ken
>
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 03:56 +1000, Hal Ashburner wrote:
>   
> > Dear gnome-love,
> > 2 months after I submitted this patch in bugzilla it hasn't been
> > reviewed or even looked at.
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166485
> > It really is a bug, it really does exist, this patch really fixes it
> > on my system. The code was painful to come to grips with as it uses an
> > X api that is undocumented. Yay. (Try man XShapeGetRectangles on your
> > system for a laugh, and note the code itself has no comment as to why
> > it's using XShapeGetRectangles which introduced this regression).
> > When kids like me fix a bug and it's ignored with no review, no
> > acknowledgement no nothing it really does blunt the enthusiasm to fix
> > more bugs. Maybe the maintainer is AWOL so bugzilla emails just ended
> > up in /dev/null, so s/he needs a replacement?
> >
> >
> >
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