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Re: git maintenance bug tracker sooner better than later

From
Johannes Gilger <heipei@hackvalue.de>
Date
Feb 6, 2009, 12:33 UTC
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On 2009-02-04, jidanni@jidanni.org <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:
> Anyway, I have this file
>   -rw-r--r--  1   19561 2009-01-13 03:26 DietCherries17
> where I have 17 tiny documentation patches that sent to
> git@vger.kernel.org but nothing happened.

As I recall a lot of those things were replied to (at least for the first few patches) as being not quite right (or plain wrong). Once you even said "oh, if you could fix this for me before applying it". At some point the time it takes to review patches and to write a quick fix for the bugs/typos yourself stands in no relation whatsoever.

> Perhaps I could send them to a volunteer who could see if any of them
> are useful and then do something with them. Thanks.

Or you could make one big "typo-fix"-patch out of them and one "i-didnt-understand-the-manpage-there"-patch. Then these patches could be reviewed and you could revise them.

A second solution would be to tackle real problems, earn the respect of the maintainer and those close to him, have your patches merged and _then_ when you come up with nitpicks about documentation, those people would be sure of your abilities and would put more trust in you to not mess up when writing documentation.

About the bug-tracker-thing: I am quite happy that git is one of those projects where everything happens in one spot: Development, bug-reporting and general discussion. It makes it a lot easier than disconnected systems where information is easily duplicated and becomes stale at other ends.

But that's just my oppinion, Greetings, Jojo

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  1. jidanni@jidanni.orgFeb 2, 2009
  2. Christian MICHONFeb 2, 2009
  3. Nanako ShiraishiFeb 3, 2009
  4. Teemu LikonenFeb 3, 2009
  5. Johannes SchindelinFeb 3, 2009
  6. jidanni@jidanni.orgFeb 4, 2009
  7. Johannes GilgerFeb 6, 2009
  8. Andreas EricssonFeb 6, 2009
  9. jidanni@jidanni.orgFeb 6, 2009
  10. Johannes GilgerFeb 6, 2009

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