[forum] XFree86's Future and thoughts and suggestions

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:49:20PM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 15:52, Egbert Eich wrote:
> > Would a named list of maintainers make a difference?
> > This however is no guarantee for speedy handling
> > as maintainers may be limited with their time.
> 
> I think it's fairly obvious that the current way of doing things has
> been less than optimal. We all understand that maintainers have limited
> resources (thats true of pretty much all of us).
> 
> I think the current complaint is that patches seemingly disappear into a
> black hole. I think the maintainers need to do *something* to
> acknowledge patches, even if it's a one line 'Received. Will look at it
> in the next month or so."

You are aware that each patch you send get an ACK as return, as well as
a patch number, are you ? The i will look at it reply you ask for is not
needed, as that is the normal course of event. Sure a more verbose
method of doing this would be handy. Do you volunteer to implement
something of the kin ? Maybe a system akin to the debian BTS, were each
patch would receive a mail address, and the patch examiner woudl log his
intentions and use this channel for further discution with the patch
submitter. In addition a list of submitted patches together with the
date it was last posted to would be good to get an idea on how long you
would have to wait for your patch to be looked at or something such.

Friendly,

Sven Luther