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On Saturday 14 August 2010 17:00:38 Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> > > > - There is absolutely no reference to any patch sent upstream and I |
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> > > > have not seen anything on the upstream dev ml. |
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> > > Thats because I didn't. I've fixed more than 40 bug wrt LDFLAGS. Do you |
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> > > expect me to subscribe to 40 different ML and send them upstream? |
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> > you don't need to subscribe, there's usually an AUTHORS file with emails |
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> > you can use... |
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> As I said, I thought that maintainers was responsible to do it since they |
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> follow all the bug progress after all. So according to you I should do all |
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> the work. Tempting |
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yes please; I consider not doing it a bit rude as the maintainers will _have_ |
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to clean after you. |
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> > > The |
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> > > patch is there, the maintainer is CC on the bug. All he has to do it to |
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> > > send this damn patch to upstream. |
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> > I can use the same reasoning and ask: |
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> > Why don't you do it in the first place if that's "all" ? |
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> Cause I cannot maintain all the tree myself |
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you're confused; contributing to an(other) OSS project (and retaining |
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authorship of your patches & improvements) does not have much to do with |
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maintaining a package. |
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> > > I only do QA fixing. If you have problem touching your |
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> > > packages just say it |
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> > I don't have problems with anyone touching "my" packages (esp. when |
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> > they're herds packages...); though when I'm not happy with the technical |
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> > details I let it be known and _really_ appreciate when the comments are |
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> > taken into account instead of aggressively discarded by trying to argue |
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> > why it's not been perfect in the first place ;) |
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> > A. |
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> I don't think what I do is perfect. But all this kind of judgement is |
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> quite demotivated I must say. |
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Don't be demotivated. The only "judgement" I made is on the technical side and |
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not on the global goal; on that side you can just fix it, get thanks & kudos |
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and be done :) |
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A. |