Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 07:34:57PM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > > > Maybe James is a little bit busy and forgot to apply and make a new > > release to fix this bug? Have you asked him, why he didn't applied your > > patch? > > I asked him on irc. He told me he would look at it at the weekend (that was 3 > month ago). He also told me that he does not accept patches from everybody and > would check the patch first.
Blah. This really sucks. a) It was way less than 3 months ago. b) I said I would look at it _last_ week, as that was the first week I'd had off from work in 6 months. As it turned out, my holiday became this week for various reasons. And I have looked at the patch this week. c) I said I don't just apply patches, *whoever* they come from, I have to understand them first. If you're going to quote off IRC, please try and retain a semblance of reality. Look, I'm _sorry_ I haven't applied your patch, but I have very little free time, and I have to prioritise it as I see fit. Personally, I think new-maintainer, ftpmaster and keyring-maint are _all_ higher priority than a patch for a bug which affects very few people. I also think there is a serious attitude problem here. Why is it so important that the patch is applied? The point is you've _done the work_. It's available now in the BTS for me, Chris, or some future maintainer of mawk. If you're going to get in a huff every time a maintainer is slow in applying a patch or responding, you might as well give up now. In any event, I can tell you one thing that _won't_ make me hurry to apply your patch, and that's bitching about me on a mailing list I may or may not read and misrepresenting (to put it lightly) what I said to you. -- James
