On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:03:18PM +0900, Shmuel Fomberg 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. >
I don't know why this should be a problem. All the major projects have release cycles. They have an unstable beta available for testing and patching, and the official "stable" release. If your not releasing under a free software license, however, it doesn't matter much. Ruben -- http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." "> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.< You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one." © Copyright for the Digital Millennium _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
