On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:29:15 +0200 Sander van Grieken <san...@3v8.net> wrote: > No. Just email your patches to Marcus Bauer. Expect no reply nor use > of patches. > > But, you don't have the right to complain. You have the right to > fork, though.
Well, looks like you are a bit upset that your patch was not accepted but quality is important for the longterm success of tangoGPS. Criteria for software quality are (amongst others): * correctness (i.e. bug free) * maintainability * robustness Your patch about speed-up is very invasive in core parts of tangoGPS, was not well documented, not minimalistic and introduced several bugs. In general it falls in the category of premature optimisation which will cause enhancements like other map datums as WGS84 or other projections as Merkatoor significantly more difficult and error prone. There is plenty of documentation about how to contribute to open source projects and my advice is to check that first. Another idea is to start your own project - look at the various appstores, there a plenty of great ideas. As you already stated, tangoGPS is GPL'd, thus certainly if a packager of SHR or any other distribution wants to include your patch, that is certainly possible, no problem there. Best regards, Marcus _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
