From sources-request at octave dot org Fri Jun 18 03:11:05 2004 Subject: Re: Patch for documentation From: David Bateman To: "John W. Eaton" Cc: Federico Zenith , sources@octave.org Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:06:49 +0200 According to John W. Eaton (on 06/17/04): > OK, sorry I jumped in the negative direction here, but I'm under a lot > of time pressure recently for various reasons. Yeah, seems to be a common problem :-) > (Nearly) blindly accepting large patches is not something I'm willing > to do unless I have some sense that the person sending that patches > will still be around for a while, or has made a number of good changes > in the past. The easiest way to get to that point is to send a series > of small patches over a period of time. Bit of a chicken and egg problem though.. If people see that they have trouble getting their patches accepted, its a turn off to them and they won't try any further. So in the mean you'll have a smaller pool of developers. > OTOH, if someone who has been doing a lot of good work over time (like > you or Paul Kienzle, for example) reviews a patch and says "this looks > good, you should probably apply it" then I'm more likely to do so, > even if the patch comes from someone I don't know as well. Thanks for the compliment. This is the bit where I say to myself "why did I open my big mouth"... Ok, I'll read Fredrico's patch more carefully, do a build with it and scan through the postscript output of the documentation to see things are ok. Not sure I can be 100% sure of the consistency of the documentation changes to the functions though, but I'll try. Cheers D. -- 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