From sources-request at octave dot org Thu Jun 17 10:19:02 2004 Subject: Re: Patch for documentation From: David Bateman To: "John W. Eaton" Cc: Federico Zenith , sources@octave.org Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 17:15:13 +0200 According to John W. Eaton (on 06/17/04): > Can you please split up your patch into smaller pieces, each of which > addresses a particular problem? Otherwise, I'm likely to ignore it > since it is large and I have limited time at the moment to try to > extract the parts that we might want to keep. If each patch is > smaller and solves just one problem, then it will be much easier to > evalute. Please post the smaller patches to the bugs list. The > sources list is for new code contributions, not patches. > > For any changes to code, please include ChangeLog entries. > > Thanks, I think you're taking the wrong approach here. Here is someone who has basically stepped forward to update the documentation to the way octave currently is rather than how it was 2 or 3 years ago. You have the oppurtunity here to assign the responsibility for the documentation task to Fredrico, as long as he is willing to take it on, save your-self heaps of effort that you can assign elsewhere and get to a version 3.0 release that much faster. Telling Fredrico to cut his patch up into little pieces, and maybe they'll be accepted is basically just a turn-off for him. The only exception I see to this is the part where he actually modifies the code. I've done a quick read over his patch (but haven't compiled with it) and can't see any issues easily. So please accept this opportunity to reduce your workload by trusting someone to get it right, especially since it is in the documentation where there is minimum risk of affecting the functionality of octave. Sorry, for the criticism, but if you read in detail all of the submitted patches, you might as well write them yourself. Cheer David -- David Bateman David dot Bateman at motorola dot com Motorola CRM +33 1 69 35 48 04 (Ph) Parc Les Algorithmes, Commune de St Aubin +33 1 69 35 77 01 (Fax) 91193 Gif-Sur-Yvette FRANCE The information contained in this communication has been classified as: [x] General Business Information [ ] Motorola Internal Use Only [ ] Motorola Confidential Proprietary