Hi Shmuel. To me - it looks like a part of the conflict between "Cathedral" and "Bazaar" models - as described by Eric S. Raymond (ESR).
I do not On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Shmuel Fomberg <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all. > > You may or may not work, but now I work for Six Apart, on Movable Type. > Now, there is the company, but also the a community, that maintain a fork > (called Open Melody) of the previous major version. > > Sometimes that people submit a pull request, with useful patches. and that > is good. > but on the other side, in the company we have release cycles. > (planning-implementing-testing-release) > it means that when a patch comes, it probably won't enter to the upcoming > release, and we can not even tell when it will added to the product until it > actually marked in some release for inclusion. > > so practically the submitter is getting a "thank for your patch. it will be > integrated sometime in the future" massage, and I think that this is very > discouraging for them. > but I don't know how to fix that. > > And ideas? > > Shmuel. > > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > -- ________________________________ Oren Maurer http://oren.maurer.org.il http://meorero.wordpress.com _______________________________ # =======================| # Please avoid sending me Word | # or PowerPoint attachments | # =======================| # See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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