On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Leo Simons wrote: <rant-disclaimer> Why do people think submitting patches is difficult?
Maybe I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, but I'm tired of having someone propose a new committer because he or she thinks that the patch submission process is "too difficult". CVS, patch, and email are not difficult subjects to master. > - learn how to generate patch > - figure out where to send the patch > - generate patch > - type e-mail > - send patch with e-mail to infrastructure list > - followup on the responses > - make a change to your patch as requested by infrastructure > team > - send another e-mail This process is part of the community process. If you continue to submit patches with merit, you'll probably end up with karma. :-) If you are in a rush to contribute code to a project, go to SourceForge or java.net and start a documentation project. </rant-disclaimer> <snip/> > no, the barrier is not high. Yes, it is too high for many, many potential > contributors. No it isn't, I think you are confusing the fact that people don't generally like to contribute documentation. Instead of lowering the barriers for "potential contributors", we need to do a better job of creating an atmosphere where a non-committer knows that a patch submission will not sit in Bugzilla for months before being "discovered". Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
