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

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 22:48 +1000, Hal Ashburner wrote:
>         
>         > This seems to me like pretty good evidence that the
>         maintainers of
>         > "gnome-utils" haven't got the time required to look after
>         the package
>         > properly. I'm sure they don't mean to be so rude to the
>         people who spent
>         > their time fixing bugs but ultimately intentions alone don't
>         get things
>         > done.
>         
>         
>         no, you're wrong: I'm being rude to you.
>         
>         whom I've never heard of.
>
> Hello Emmanuele!
> I hope this mail finds you well.


evidently sarcasm produced without my morning intake of caffeinated
products is not detectable. well, my fault.

now, with the correct amount of caffeine working its magic through my
synapses, let's start from scratch:

your patches are very much welcome; if I'm too busy - as it happens
right now - to actually review them, a welcome course of action is
sending them either directly to me or to the gnome-utils mailing list,
which (without detracting from gnome-love) is the correct place to send
them - as well as eventual pokeage to the maintainer(s). not every
maintainer follows gnome-love - it was sheer dumb luck that you also
found me here.

personal mail, or mailing lists with low traffic like gnome-utils-list
are far more easier to get a maintainer attention than bugzilla emails;
I receive between 100 and 200 emails a day from bugzilla - and even
though I might read them in real time, I often loose them in the
mailbox.

as I wrote in the other email, though, not only are patches welcome but
also new maintainers for other sub-modules of gnome-utils; you need to
stick around, triage bugs, implement patches and then ask for a SVN
account, so that you can commit your fixes or code by yourself.

a very welcome option would be using a distributed revision control
system, like bzr or git, to locally "fork" gnome-utils, work on fixing
multiple bugs or implementing new features and then send an email to
gnome-utils-list gnome org with the request to pull from that repository
and merge the work. this will make your job a lot easier because you
won't need special permissions, and will make my job easier because then
I'll be able to review multiple patches as a whole.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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