Hi Viktor, thanks for your reply. > I'm a bit at loss as to why. Is my patch flawed? Is this not > relevant enough to fix? Is Sphinx a dead project? > > Sorry for my questions. I'm happy to contribute to Sphinx, but if > the project is dead, at least I know and can find an alternative. > > I think going from "Sphinx doesn't seem to be responding to my pull > request" to "maybe the project is dead" seems a very large leap...
It is... :) My mail was a bit provocative on purpose. I have noted the activity, and presume that -like most OSS projects- this is a unfunded project by volunteers who are busy and have other real-life obligations and their other priorities. Consider my previous mail a last attempt to help the project. While I used Sphinx, I fixed two bugs and wrote one extension. I could have left it at that, but since I was impressed with the project, I decided to spend some time to contribute back to the community by first sending a mail to the list. No reply. Than a comment with patch to an existing issue. That wasn't noted either, so I presumed the maintainers were busy and made a pull request for both patches to make it even easier. That was 1-2 months ago, and I anticipated a "thanks, we'll patch", "sorry, your patch is flawed/there is a reason not to go this route" or just "thanks, we'll have a look later" in this time frame. It seems unlikely that such response will come after this time, so consider my previous mail a probe to ask if my contributions back to this community (patches, pull requests) are appreciated, or that they are of so poor quality that I better spend that time on some other projects :) I know you guys worked your ass off to get the code (and documentation!) in the current state, and if I belittled that by hinting the project is dead, I do apologise for that. If you have suggestions how I can more effectively contribute to this project (other than the patched, pull request, and snarky mails ;)), just let me know. Otherwise I just leave it at this, and work on my own projects. Thanks, and keep up the good work! Freek -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev?hl=en.
