Re: How to submit a patch

Brendan Jurd wrote:
> >  OK.  FYI, what would be really nice would be for someone to review and
> >  apply the patch or give the author feedback so we could avoid adding it
> >  to the wiki at all.
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> Yes, that would be nice!  But not likely in practice, unless your
> patch happens to immediately catch the interest of a suitably
> qualified person with commit privileges.
> 
> However, I don't know of any way the maintenance of the wiki is an
> addition to your workload.  I feel that the onus of adding the patch
> to the wiki should be on the submitter, and we've already had some
> success getting submitters to add their own patches.  And Alvaro has
> already offered to pick up the slack in cases where the submitter
> fails to add their patch to the queue.
> 
> Every patch that somebody else adds to the wiki is another patch you
> don't have to add to your queue, so how can this be anything but a
> plus for you?

Yes, but unless people actually applies patches from the wiki, it
doesn't help me --- adding patches to my queue is zero cost for me.

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