Why not contribute? (to GCC)

[Tim Prince]

On 4/23/2010 1:05 PM, HyperQuantum wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:58 PM, HyperQuantum<hyperquantum@gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez
>> <lopezibanez@gmail.com>  wrote:
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>    
>>> What reasons keep you from contributing to GCC?
>>>        
>> The lack of time, for the most part.
>>      
> I submitted a feature request once. It's now four years old, still
> open, and the last message it received was two years ago. (PR26061)
>    
The average time for acceptance of a PR with a patch submission from an 
outsider such as ourselves is over 2 years, and by then the patch no 
longer fits, has to be reworked, and is about to become moot.
I still have the FSF paperwork in force, as far as I know, from over a 
decade ago, prior to my current employment.  Does it become valid again 
upon termination of employment?  My current employer has no problem with 
the FSF paperwork for employees whose primary job is maintenance of gnu 
software (with committee approval), but this does not extend to those of 
us for whom it is a secondary role.  There once was a survey requesting 
responses on how our FSF submissions compared before and after current 
employment began, but no summary of the results.

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Tim Prince