From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: git maintenance bug tracker sooner better than later Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:56:02 +0100 Message-ID: <498C3362.9080105@op5.se> References: <87tz7bniyk.fsf@jidanni.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: johannes.schindelin@gmx.de, tlikonen@iki.fi, nanako3@lavabit.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 06 13:57:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LVQH5-0005Lz-5T for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:57:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751932AbZBFM4L (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:56:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751878AbZBFM4I (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:56:08 -0500 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:46070 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751200AbZBFM4H (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2009 07:56:07 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2EA1B80060; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:56:52 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.399 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Wt0g2ASwXvmu; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:56:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from clix.int.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.20]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C8641B80053; Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:56:50 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) In-Reply-To: <87tz7bniyk.fsf@jidanni.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: > Anyway, I have this file > -rw-r--r-- 1 19561 2009-01-13 03:26 DietCherries17 > where I have 17 tiny documentation patches that sent to > git@vger.kernel.org but nothing happened. > Perhaps I could send them to a volunteer who could see if any of them > are useful and then do something with them. Thanks. That's really not how things work around here, or on any OSS project I've ever been engaged in. It's your itch to scratch, so before you have a chance of getting anyone else to scratch it for you, you have to either make those others interested enough to volunteer to do it for you, or you get to scratch away as much as you like yourself. The longer and more difficult way is to scratch the itches of so many others that people want to help you out because the chance you'll do something else which is *also* productive is high enough to warrant it. So far, you seem more interested in shooting from the hip, sending patches at random that have little or no impact on anything and that nobody else is genuinely interested in. That's fine if you also pick up the pieces of your poor aim and actually follow through but when it really just causes more work for others than the end-result would have been worth to start with, the net result is counter-productive and you have to work harder when you have ideas/patches that are actually good than you would have been forced to with a better overall signal-to-noise ratio. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231