Re: How to submit a patch?

A friend and I submitted a patch almost a year ago now that added
https streaming support of mp3 and ogg files to XMMS by linking
against openssl.  Seemed to us like a worthy cause, and a very small,
clean patch.  We contacted the maintainers several times and never
heard a word.
see: http://bugs.xmms.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579

Obviously, a fork should be a last resort, but I can certainly
sympathize with a lack of response.  I'd be willing to use and
contribute to any good, active mp3/ogg media player project (xmms or a
fork).

Dustin


On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:51:14 -0800 (PST), Chris Hellberg
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been toying with the idea of doing a code fork -
> something like an xmms-dev branch and go back through
> the xmms bugzilla and add the contributed patches that
> have been left out. If the maintainership of the main
> xmms branch comes back to life, then we could act as a
> testing branch for features before they get accepted
> in the mainline/stable xmms branch and do merges
> periodically.
> 
> It's hard to tell if the current CVS guy is too busy,
> or lost interest or both.
> 
> Anyone interested in helping with such an enterprise?
> 
> Chris
> 
> --- Jeremy Huddleston <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > cvs hasn't been updated signifigantly in about 6
> > months.  I offered to
> > help with maintainership a few months back, but
> > nothing came of it... so
> > xmms is pretty much rotting now... =(
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 14:22 -0800, Chris Hellberg
> > wrote:
> > > Weel, I've been submitting my patches to bugzilla.
> > I'm
> > > buggared if I know if anyone looks at them or will
> > > even includes them in the source. I expect if the
> > > answer to the previous statement is yes, then
> > you'd
> > > probably get the same result as if you'd emailed
> > the
> > > patch to this list.
> > >
> > > Personally I think there should be more
> > communication
> > > on this matter (either communication style or
> > > development involvement from others) since it
> > seems
> > > like most things here go to /dev/null.
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Rudy Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > >   I was wondering how/where I can submit a small
> > > > patch to
> > > > the xmms base source, and also if there are any
> > > > coding/submission
> > > > guidelines I need to follow.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
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