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A problem with old bugs
From: |
Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
A problem with old bugs |
Date: |
Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:22:55 +0100 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 |
Hi there,
I'm sorry to say that I'm a bit sad. A few months ago (maybe a year)
there was a call to so some work on old, outstanding bugs.
I volunteered for that, and while I did not spend /a lot/ of time on
that, I feel that I did indeed help a bit. Then, I proceeded to
actually fix a few bugs that were within my reach. I sent a patch
fixing 21072, then a patch fixing one bug I did not formally submit (but
both the bug and the patch are seemingly quite trivial), and then wanted
to start discussion on 19873.
Unfortunately, I have to say that I got very little feedback. There was
some discussion (John's on testing, Eli's on my stupid mistakes etc.),
but my patches/emails are mainly left there undecided.
I do understand the main reason (too few developers, the bugs were not
critical), but I have to say that the situation isn't exactly motivating
for me. I will try to continue work on some bugs for the next week or
two, but I guess I'll stop then, since at this moment it doesn't feel to
have a lot of sense anyway, and I have a lot of ways to spend my time in
a meaningful way...
Is there anything that could be done to avoid turning off people wanting
to help with Emacs development? Did I choose wrong bugs to work on? If
so, should I close them as "wontfix", even though (in 2 cases) there are
actual patches that seem to fix them?
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
- A problem with old bugs,
Marcin Borkowski <=
Re: A problem with old bugs, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/01