--- On Mon, 10/24/11, Michael Meeks wrote: ... > > Of course, in an atmosphere > characterised by mutual respect and > collaboration this would be no big deal. > Of course Bugzilla notifies people when there is action taken on their patches and so far no has complained but I would certainly respect and honor patch removal requests if some contributor is not OK with their patches being committed into our base.
What I am seeing, though, is a pretty sane community that wants problems fixed. I have even seen cases of issues I was closing because of license concerns and the contributors stepped in to change their LGPL code to AL2. FWIW, I asked for a very simple patch that made it into LibreOffice, but by the time the contributor responded (a month after) saying it was OK I had already committed a workaround to solve the issue. It would be nice to have some principle of agreement: some issues like clang build fixes and the libegg removal (which we have ready but not yet committed) are basically repeated efforts without many ways to do things differently anyways. If libreoffice encourages, but not requires, AL2 for stuff in the core package, that would be a huge advance to get a bit nearer both camps. Pedro.
