Re: new issue tracker

On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 12:18:34PM -0500, will kahn-greene wrote:
> I haven't heard anything from anyone except for Tim.  I (manually)
> copied the bugs over from SF and closed two of them.  Other than that,
> no one has added any new bugs or continued this thread.  

a bit of patience man, I actually entered about 14 bugs yesterday (and
that was before I even saw your "noone did anything" mail)

On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:29:59 +0200
Marius Gedminas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Also, I don't see any compelling benefits of upgrading, other than the
> ability to test latest code and contribute plugin fixes back...  And
> I'm not convinced that people are interested in my fixes and
> enhancements -- my emails on that topic back in 2009 never received
> any response, and my last attempted plugin contribution was answered
> by "why do people even care about this?".
> 
> So that perhaps explains my lack of enthusiasm.

I care about your work (you know this, cause I mailed you about it).  So
much, that I actually took patches out of your bzr tree, committed them
into git (keeping you as author) and got them merged in the main tree.  
If you want your stuff merged, switching to git and using proper
commit messages is a good first step.  then submit merge requests.
I actually found the "barrier to entry" pretty low compared to other
projects who are more strict. (like, the magicword.py plugin
contains some trailing whitespace, which is a big no-go in my book, but
I didn't want to modify the plugin, and still it got merged -
functionality-wise it works fine, btw)

> Hey, I've seen worse-run open-source projects.  I myself run some of
> them, with patches languishing in my inbox for _years_ when I was
> suffering from burnout.

+1, I've seen much worse. Luckily, with a vcs like git it's not too bad
to lag a bit behind, because folks can easily pull from each other.


> I'm happy to see new activity with the website, documentation (Sphinx
> rules), Git repositories, bug trackers.

+1

Dieter

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