On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 5:09 PM, eric b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 28 sept. 08 à 16:12, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : > >>> Mind you with >>> the time that I've spent on it so far, I probably should have spent the >>> half/full day required to get it sorted. >> >> You should have spent two minutes filing an issue of type "Patch". > > Sure, provide a patch is two minutes, indeed. But the bottleneck are QA and > code integration process : just discouraging people to provide code.
That is missing the point. Did providing a solution in a blogpost solve the problem? No. Will RE or some other contributor look in blogs for patches? No. Will somebody, even after being told: Look, somebody posted some code on his blog just grab it and take it? Hell no, especially when there are no statements wrt. copyright/licencing in that blog. (Of course the patch we're talking about is small, but just to make my point more clear) Will somebody working on a cws, and being pointed to an issue with an attached patch include that patch in his open cws? Very likely if the patch is straightforward and if it touches a module already part of that cws. Will someone providing builds apply patches from a blog? Very unlikely. Will someone providing builds apply patches from IssueZilla? less unlikely, esp. if it is an annoying thing that gets fixed (so that you don't want to wait for the next (or second next) milestone with a cws that fixes the problem. And wrt. delays and such: There were enough open mac-related cws lately, so no need to create a cws just for that patch. And if you hook up to an existing cws by somebody else, you don't have to deal with all the administrativa. (that btw. is not that much. The only hard part is finding someone who is willing to do QA, but if you ask on the Mailinglist, you'll get some help anyway). If you got QA, then you're set. Code-Integration nowadays is fast when the cws is approved/nominated (and when there's not a version control system migration at the same time) Hope my point of view is now understandable/more clear. ciao Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
