[rust-dev] Development Policy re: bug assignment

2013-05-25 Thread Isaac Aggrey
Hi rust-dev, I thought we should have a brief discussion on the development policy, specifically about bug assignment (from the perspective of a new contributor to the Rust codebase). # Motivation I had a working patch for fixing a small Rust issue (my first Rust bug) at one point before some

Re: [rust-dev] Development Policy re: bug assignment

2013-05-25 Thread Tim Chevalier
I agree that this is a real concern. It may not be happening very often so far, but it's a seriously bad feeling to find that someone else has gone ahead and done the same work you were making headway on (regardless of intent). I think if it's possible on github, we should have a way for any