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Re: [gfortran] SIGH! How to alienate a contributor
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 02:37:54AM +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> On Saturday 20 November 2004 02:24, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > The first small patch was available on Sat, 13 Nov 2004.
>
> Oh no!! A *whole* week! Say it ain't so!!
I only have 2 weeks of annual leave that I can dedicate to
gfortran. One week is gone. I was away from gfortran for
2 months and Tobi implemented SYSTEM. That's 1 nonstandard
g77 intrinsic. There were 70+ unimplemented g77 intrinsics
before I submitted my patches. We're down to 56.
> Dude. With an attitude like that, I'd never get any of my own
> patches into the parts of GCC that I'm not a maintainer of - which
> is basically all of GCC except fortran. I've got 6 or 7 patches
> pending now that nobody has even *looked* at yet, let alone approve
> them or commit them.
Are your 6 or 7 patches editing the same 5 files?
> > An updated patch that fixed an inconsequential bug was
> > posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2004. It was noted in the post
> > of the second patch that I have several other g77 intrinsics
> > implemented. It's getting very difficult to manage the
> > patches becuase NO ONE is committing these to the tree.
>
> Actually I just read your mail that you don't have CVS write access,
> which you should have when you plan to post more patches. You can
> ask for it on sources.redhat.com, and mention me as your "sponsor".
Writer-after-approval isn't very valuable if no one is reviewing
patches. It's only after a scathing email that anyone responds
(with apologies to Janne).
--
Steve