Hannah Schroeter wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:16:06PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
So, start by sending diff's then. Almost every diff's I saw sent in, got
reply one way or an other.
My recent experiences differ, for my last 2 submissions (an issue with
swig, sent to ports@ after interaction with the maintainer; the sendmail
nit I sent to tech@ a few days ago).
Let me say this. I am not native English, but doesn't the word
"interaction" mean a level of communications between two party? So, you
got feedback to start with from the maintainer.
If that diff's is not in, may be the devs are busy and haven't picked it
up yet, or may be you didn't follow the advise of the maintainer for it.
Or may be the person that usually deal with sendmail is not available at
the moment. Looking at the various changes in that section,
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/ostype/
It sure is not a very active one and may be, just may be it might take a
bit more time to get review by the right person, or the person
interested in it.
Your diff was sent: 2007-11-01 22:19:19
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=119395606819644&w=2
Less then 48 hours and on weekend as well. So you expect anyone to just
jump right away to put it in?
May be it's just wrong, or may be it wasn't looked at yet.
Searching on marc for pass one, I don't see a huge amount of them to see
if you can judge yet as to put a complete judgment on it.
If you diff is good, it will be in, if not, it will not. Doesn't mean
you shouldn't send in some diff's.
Don't expect each and every one of them to be put in.
Best,
Daniel
