On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 9:11:47 PM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> On 2014-08-27 21:01, Julien Puydt wrote: >> > but on a general basis people are quite welcoming of >> > sensible contributions. >> Depends on the project. Whenever I think a patch is good for upstream, I >> do submit it upstream. My impression is that, unless upstream knows you >> personally, bug reports (even with patches) are often ignored. I'm not >> blaming those projects, but it makes the goal of having unpatched clean >> upstream sources much less realistic. >> >> Jeroen. > > I do agree with Jeroen, sometimes upstream is not as welcoming as one might > hope. > But as Jeroen I always do submit patches upstream (unless it seems upstream > vanished...). > I even struggle to get some reaction from them when it seems they ignored or > forgot my proposals. > The best response I got so far was from the R folk: > https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15643
Wow, that's incredible: "Brian Ripley: Cygwin (and Cygwin64) is not a supported platform. Please do your own homework!" In case anyone cares, I googled quickly, and evidently Brian Ripley is a 62-year old Oxford Professor, so you can picture the quote more accurately... -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org wst...@uw.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
