On 3/12/07, Miguel Lobo <mlobol at gmail.com> wrote: > > Yet, the same can be said for most other patches: they are all for the > > benefit of users running into the same respective problems. > > Agreed. What I mean is that this fasttrack system where the submitter has > to do some extra work seems to imply that accepting the patch somehow > benefits the submitter. In fact I'm probably the person the patch will > benefit least, because I have already run into the problem and know how to > solve it. I feel responsible for defending the patch since I've written it > and I know the problem it fixes and my solution better than anybody else, > but I don't see how that responsibility extends to having to do extra > unrelated work to have the patch accepted. It is certainly not your _responsibility_ to review additional patches to get your accepted; without doing so, it likely will be accepted, eventually (assuming it is correct). As far as I understand, Martin's offer is purely a personal one: there is a patch backlog, and if you help clear it out, he will help your patch get processed faster. cheers, -Mike
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4