Re: GTK 2.20 for Windows

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 09:51 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > Would filing tickets of the issues that arise generate a response?
>
> Filing tickets (bug reports in bugzilla.gnome.org) for individual
> clearly separate issues (that don't have bug reports already) is
> always good,

This is essential. We can't have a discussion about the problems, or
attract anyone to deal with them, if we don't know what they are.

>  especially if accompanied by minimal but complete test
> programs. But don't expect any immediate "response" for bugs that are
> hard to fix. (And avoid setting the "priority" or "severity" fields,
> that only makes the bug reporter seem obnoxious ("my bugs are the most
> important ones"), those fields are cheerfully ignored by most
> maintainers I think, or at least by me.)
>
> > Or is the project needing an active developer to sort out the issues
> that have already arisen?
>
> That is it, yes. Either some existing "maintainer" (like me) that
> already knows the code to some extent needs inspiration to start
> working on the issues, or some new person needs to appear, full of
> energy and inspiration. 

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