[Python-Dev] Encouraging developers (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 12:05:07 CET 2007

On 18/03/07, Tony Meyer <tony.meyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> on someone else's patch. It seems relevant to me that the original > poster (Tony Meyer) hasn't felt strongly enough to respond on his own > behalf to comments on his patch. No disrespect to Tony, but I'd argue > that the implication is that the patch should be rejected because even > the submitter doesn't care enough to respond to comments!

There is a considerable difference between "doesn't care enough", and "has not had time to be able to" (although in this specific case "doesn't care enough" is correct).

On rereading my comments, I apologise - you're absolutely right that I didn't have enough evidence to judge that you "don't care enough" about the patch.

Thanks for clarifying - I entirely agree with you that just being willing to put together any sort of bug report or patch is valuable, and people should not be discouraged from doing so. (It's a sad but probably inevitable fact that many such contributors - I include myself here! - have expectations of speed of response which simply aren't possible for a volunteer project, and as a result get frustrated with "the process", but that's a separate issue)

Paul.

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