Re: forwarded message from Satish Athreya

Egbert Eich wrote:
> Keith Whitwell writes:
>  > Unfortunately in my experience, emails like this usually end at about this 
>  > point.  You can reply or not, but whatever effort goes into it is usually 
>  > wasted.
>  > 
>  > When people post a patch or an informed-looking problem report, take them 
>  > seriously & consider investing your own time in guiding their efforts.  When 
>  > they say "here I am now, what should I start coding?", the best idea is to 
>  > point them at a publicly hosted newbies-todo-list - chances are that's the 
>  > last you'll hear of them.
>  > 
> 
> Right. 
> 
> A while ago we had somebody who told us that he has a driver for
> Nvidia with full 3D acceleration for 3.x and 4.x ;-)
> He wanted to know how to get it integrated. He even wrote twice. 
> So we don't get blamed of doing nothing some others and I replied.

Fair enough.  I'm not saying don't reply - but if you do, the maybe the best 
thing is to have some list of simple tasks that nobody's gotten around to 
doing yet - code cleanups, janitorial type tasks, that people can cut their 
teeth on.

In fact a project for some interested person might be to create such a list... 
  Or figure out a way to get bugzilla to semi-automate the creation of such a 
list...

Keith