Re: [racket] Planet Packages

2011-08-24 Thread Jordan Schatz
> I think the thing to do is to contact the author and ask if you can > help, or, if s/he is not planning on updating the package, whether > s/he would mind if you released a modified version of the package. Thanks guys, I'll contact the original dev and take things from there. Shalom, Jordan

Re: [racket] Planet Packages

2011-08-24 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Jay McCarthy wrote at 08/24/2011 08:55 PM: The best think is to just upload a new package with the same name and not the provenance in the docs. This has happened before (sxml2) We actually talked with Oleg Kiselyov (original developer) and the other developers before doing that, and got th

Re: [racket] Planet Packages

2011-08-24 Thread Neil Van Dyke
One thing to keep in mind: the bug reports on the PLaneT site are not necessarily the de facto way to submit bug reports for the package. The author of the package might not even be aware of them, or may have forgotten. I think the thing to do is to contact the author and ask if you can help

Re: [racket] Planet Packages

2011-08-24 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Jordan Schatz wrote: > There is a planet package that looks like it's author is too busy to > maintain (it has open bugs, and some with unmerged patches, and they are > many months old) that I plan on fixing for my own needs... What is the > proper etiquette for ge

[racket] Planet Packages

2011-08-24 Thread Jordan Schatz
There is a planet package that looks like it's author is too busy to maintain (it has open bugs, and some with unmerged patches, and they are many months old) that I plan on fixing for my own needs... What is the proper etiquette for getting a version with my updates into planet? On github I would