On Wednesday 14 May 2008 05:02, Emmet Hikory wrote: > Stephan Hermann wrote: > > "Emmet Hikory" wrote: > > > While this is often the case, there are sometimes dependencies > > > between packages that mean that other packages must be merged first. > > > Also, depending on the focus of the individual developer, it may be > > > that upgrading a specific package is of significant importance towards > > > meeting some goal, and so efforts on that package may be prioritised. > > > > Yes...for this there is, as mentioned, IRC or eMail to ask the last > > uploader to take care about it, or if there is no message in time, I > > would do the merge myself, or a contributor is doing it, and ping on > > the channel for sponsoring... > > Sure, but it's the definition of "in time" that causes the very > event that sparked this thread. There is nothing more demotivating > than performing work and having it discarded without comment, or > ignored completely. > Agreed, but the system that completely solves this problem (and I'm entirely sympathetic to the contributor who's work was ignored, that should be minimized - and an apology from the MOTU in question would be useful - if that's me, let me know) would also be a lot less fun to work in. We need to be careful that in optimizing for this case we don't optimize volunteers out of contributing.
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