I noticed a large portion of member/user supplied patches are simply ignored atm. For the mailinglist vs2k5 and I have quite a few without replies or reason why it cant be made into the trunk,for the bug tracker and forum,there are also quite a few patches supplied by user or bug reporter being ignored or without explicit reason of rejection.In my opinion,this is really bad for an open source project that is intended for all users to edit for their own liking and share the works.Moreover,this will frustrate contributors in a long run,at least I will think twice before trying to make more patches as well as improving exist ones,as it seems to me most of them will very likely be ignored.
In most projects,a quality assurance team or few core developers will be responsible for reviewing all user supplied patch in a weekly basis or in even less interval(users simply attach their patches in forum and they will get an answer whether it will be made into the code base or not and the explanation of such decision) I believe many ppl like myself will not accept the offer of stepping up as official developer,since some ppl dont want the take-up of responsibility of a developer and being abided by the rules associated to it.Great power comes great responsibility,both are something I dont want =) Anyways,any simple answer to a email,a forum post or whatever form of information that has a patch attached to it will solve this,even a 'yes' or a 'no' will make any contributer feel that their efforts are not wasted and their works have the attentions from the staff.
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