[Python-Dev] Patch 1644818: Allow importing built-in submodules (original) (raw)

Mike Klaas mike.klaas at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 20:09:29 CET 2007

On 3/12/07, Miguel Lobo <mlobol at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yet, the same can be said for most other patches: they are all for the > benefit of users running into the same respective problems.

Agreed. What I mean is that this fasttrack system where the submitter has to do some extra work seems to imply that accepting the patch somehow benefits the submitter. In fact I'm probably the person the patch will benefit least, because I have already run into the problem and know how to solve it. I feel responsible for defending the patch since I've written it and I know the problem it fixes and my solution better than anybody else, but I don't see how that responsibility extends to having to do extra unrelated work to have the patch accepted.

It is certainly not your responsibility to review additional patches to get your accepted; without doing so, it likely will be accepted, eventually (assuming it is correct).

As far as I understand, Martin's offer is purely a personal one: there is a patch backlog, and if you help clear it out, he will help your patch get processed faster.

cheers, -Mike

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