Re: [gts-general] gnugts fork

[Stephane P. <s.p...@ni...>]

Hi Luis,

> I don't want and I can't wait a week or
> a month or a year to know your response, I think three days is enough time
> to respond, for instance something like this:

Believe me, you don't want to know how many emails I have to deal with everyday.

> but no with some like "please make me a ppt with the explanation of you
> code", please RTFC

Clearly our opinions differ on this point. I consider "please make me
a document with the explanation of your code" to be a perfectly valid
answer.

You seem to think that I should accept any patch send by contributors
without questions. This is not how free software development works.
Most free software projects have a very strict process by which
patches are accepted. For an example see the section "Working with the
community" in this page:

HOWTO do Linux kernel development:
http://lwn.net/Articles/160191/

Quoting this:

"What should you not do?
  - expect your patch to be accepted without question
  - become defensive
  - ignore comments
  - resubmit the patch without making any of the requested changes"

When you submitted your patches, I replied:

"What would really help is if you resent them one-by-one (rather than
in a batch) with detailed comments on what each patch does. Start with
the simplest ones and we will discuss as we go."

Which you ignored...

Should you really be surprised your patches did not get merged?

You have to realise that reviewing patches is a lot of work. If you
want them merged, you need to contribute positively also during the
reviewing/merging process.

cheers

Stephane