On 28 August 2014 10:54, William A Stein <wst...@uw.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpfl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 9:11:47 PM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >>> >>> On 2014-08-27 21:01, Julien Puydt wrote: >>> > but on a general basis people are quite welcoming of >>> > sensible contributions. >>> Depends on the project. Whenever I think a patch is good for upstream, I >>> do submit it upstream. My impression is that, unless upstream knows you >>> personally, bug reports (even with patches) are often ignored. I'm not >>> blaming those projects, but it makes the goal of having unpatched clean >>> upstream sources much less realistic. >>> >>> Jeroen. >> >> I do agree with Jeroen, sometimes upstream is not as welcoming as one might >> hope. >> But as Jeroen I always do submit patches upstream (unless it seems upstream >> vanished...). >> I even struggle to get some reaction from them when it seems they ignored or >> forgot my proposals. >> The best response I got so far was from the R folk: >> https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15643 > > Wow, that's incredible: "Brian Ripley: Cygwin (and Cygwin64) is not a > supported platform. Please do your own homework!" > > In case anyone cares, I googled quickly, and evidently Brian Ripley is > a 62-year old Oxford Professor, so you can picture the quote more > accurately... >
Less ageism please! Pull request are always welcome at https://github.com/JohnCremona/eclib John (58, Warwick professor, ...) > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > wst...@uw.edu > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
