Re: [LTP] About Community discussion

[Gui J. <gui...@cn...>]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Gui Jianfeng
> <gui...@cn...> wrote:
>> Hi Garrett,
>>
>> I'm sorry to bother you. My team is trying to make LTP more stable and
>> make openposix testsuite less bugs. We'd like to continue to contribute
>> to it. But I found you stop replying our mail for a long time. I'm not
>> sure whether you have received these mails. Or whether you have some
>> concerns? If yes, please let me know. :)
> 
> Hi Gui,
>     What concerns me isn't the fact that people are `finding
> problems', it's the analysis and the quality of the patches provided
> back which are problematic. Some of the analysis is spot on, some is
> way off the mark, and other analysis is incomplete; furthermore some
> of the patches fed back are hacky or unmaintainable. Add to that the
> fact that I'm not getting paid for this work and it no longer really
> aligns with my current job charter, I've been neglecting this in favor
> of more critical items in my life.

Ok, I got. :)

>     That being said, it still puzzles me why other folks attached to
> the project have been largely silent over the past couple months or
> years (in particular the official maintainers), as I would figure that
> they would have a vested interest in insuring that the changes being
> committed to the project are consistent and/or high quality.
>     I will look at the open_posix_testsuite items again tonight and
> will make a best effort at fixing things. I may not get as much done
> as people like, but I'm being more conservative to avoid missteps and
> incorrect commits.

Thanks for you work.

Gui

> Thanks,
> -Garrett
>