Branches, Patches and Bugs, was Re: SDL_Perl-2.1.3 Build.PL bug

Moin,

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:19, chromatic wrote:
> On Monday 20 February 2006 11:27, Chris Hinrichs wrote:
> (That reminds me, we really ought to merge the three separate branches
> soon.)

What three branches!?

Currently I found a memory leak in SDL Perl (while reviving my own 
SDL::App::FPS work) and want to send in a patch (plus patches for other 
issues like doc, and slowness).

At first I considered sending it here. But I could also send it directly 
to David, or to http://rt.cpan.org. Where should it really go? And 
against what version, the only one I know if is on CPAN (where it should 
be).

Seeing that the Changes file in 2.1.3 is garbled (either no longer 
updated, or the dates are wrong, as the last entry is from 2004!), and 
the bug list on rt.cpan.org is stale (there are one year old bugs that 
are marked open, but *seem* to be patched from the comments), I am really 
unsure what the best place is to get my patches to the end-users as fast 
as possible.

This guessing is all very time consuming and frustrating for me, and I 
guess other possible contributors have the same feeling (like TONYC, who 
reported a bunch of bugs with patches 7 weeks ago on RT, and they seem to 
be ignored).

Best wishes,

Tels


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