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HACKING

From: Files <files_at_poetryunlimited.com>
Date: 2003-08-25 19:15:47 CEST

Ok. I will rereadh the HACKING file and make sure that I follow it more closely.
Wish someone had mentioned it sooner...

Point taken. I will look into the svn_load_dirs.pl file as well and see how it
works now.

Shamim Islam

kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>
>"Files" <files@poetryunlimited.com> writes:
>> Oh I dunno. The fact that everyone's response to my message so far
>> has been "We'd love to have help", even if it hasn't been practiced,
>> O high and mighty co-tyrant/despot Karl. :P~
>>
>> Shamim Islam
>> Subversion Commoner
>
>:-)
>
>Seriously, I think you're over-generalizing from one incident...
>Sometimes a bug report or a patch just falls through the cracks.
>
>In this case, falling through the cracks was especially likely,
>because we don't consider 'svn_load_dirs.pl' to be part of the core
>Subversion distribution. Therefore only one or two developers really
>follow svn_load_dirs.pl bugs -- so the likelihood of a response is
>lower than for a core svn bug.
>
>As to our claim that we'd love to have help, it's really true.
>However, we can't afford to spend a lot of administrative overhead
>helping people help us. This means that help has to come in the form
>of concise, reproducible bug reports and patches that adhere to both
>the letter and the spirit of the guidelines in HACKING. (I can't
>recall offhand if your mails met these criteria, I'm just pointing out
>that "help" is a wide word, and we're only talking about a particular
>narrow range of it.) Plus, we have to stick to our prioritization of
>1.0 bugs first, everything else second.
>
>I'm sorry your bug report fell through the cracks. This has happened
>to me, oh, ten or twenty or a hundred times in a decade of
>participating in free software projects :-), so you shouldn't feel too
>lonely.
>
>-Karl
>

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