On 6 Dec 2006, at 16:17, Marc Espie wrote:
Also, let me explain where I'm coming from. I expect you'll
understand it,
since we're both busy people. ;-)
I'm one of the guys working on the packages in OpenBSD. In this line
of work, I routinely write corrections and bug-fixes to hundreds of
programs.
I've noticed, over the recent years, that `the entry barrier' has
gotten
worse. In many cases, if you want to contribute in a casual way, you
now have to jump through hurdles, like subscribing to a mailing-list,
waiting for the email to come back, or subscribe to some mozilla
mechanism,
on the web, or some such, and get all the stuff that goes with it:
a new
password to remember, and possibly spam for months to come, when your
report gets handled.
Point taken.
In my opinion, if you want people to contribute to the DBIx::Class
ml directly, you have to write, seriously that people should write
directly
to DBIx::Class, and that no subscription will be required... some
people
will make the effort to contribute anyways, some others will simply go
away or keep their patches for themselves.
We tried no subscription. That resulted in stuff getting lost amongst
spam in the mod queue. Forcing a subscription is annoying, but less
annoying than having useful e-mails lost.
Better suggestions welcome.
(and note I did forward your patch to the list myself with a
suggestion somebody applied it :)
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