From: "Jonathon -- Improov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Chris has a point. There's definitely an implicit "rejection policy" already > in place. [...snip...] > I've submitted about 3-4 patches, 3 (75-90%) of those early patches have > wrong "path to file" (I > created patch from same folder as patched file, not from root with folders > like application, > framework, etc). Jacopo mentioned it to me twice or thrice. I got the message. > > But of course, there can be those who are completely out of line all the > time, no matter what you > tell them. > > Still, it could definitely save Jacopo A TON of time if he were officially > allowed to respond with > short default message: "Sorry, I can't look at your patch at all due to time > constraints. Please > refer to best practices page to correct your patch first. Or give patch to > some kind community > member who will correct it for you. Sorry for the inconvenience."
BTW it was not Jacopo but me ;o) Jacques > Now that would be better than: "Sorry, patch no good. Please try again." I > don't see anyone ever > doing this, though. > > Jonathon