>> At any rate: we haven't had a protocol for patches not going >> through the regular process. Maybe we should use the >> Signed-off-by: convention for such patches, including the original >> submitter and the LGTM votes? It's probably mostly psychological, >> but it suggests a bit of accountability/responsibility.
This is OK with me. > I would like to add to that. With my few contributions to the actual > LilyPond codebase I was several times hit hard by last-moment > objections in the countdown stage. > > This is totally annoying and also frustrating - but what would be > the alternative? Obviously there was something that should not go > into the code base, and the fact that we're so few that not everyone > has the opportunity to look at all patches immediately should not be > a "justification" for letting stuff slip through. I think there is nothing we can do to prevent that. Werner