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| From: | Richard Frith-Macdonald |
| Subject: | Re: Question about NSMenuView |
| Date: | Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:39:00 +0000 |
On 16 Jan 2009, at 13:20, Matt Rice wrote:
i'll just go back to refraining from "interfering" aka "contributing", because I only do this because it is a) fun and b) if I find it useful maybe others will arguing over stuff just makes it no fun, and when I lose said argument, nobody can find it useful because nobody can find it.. now if this were just a few things, but most of the stuff I do for gnustep ends up rejected by their maintainers, if my view of gnustep and that of its maintainers don't align there is no point in my contributing this little patch since i'm still stuck maintaining a ton of other patches so no, I don't really care if the remaining stuff goes in personally, at this point it benefits me none, i've already got my patch... and taking one off of the queue isn't going to make any noticable impact to it OTOH I do hope people find it useful maybe if you guys went distributed version control I would bother....
Well, why is it that your view and that of the maintainers doesn't align?
It could be that your aim is just to produce something that works for you ... in which case there's always going to be a problem, but if you are interested in code that matches the MacOS-X behavior and doesn't break behaviors for other people, there should be no difficulty convincing maintainers.
Of course, maintainers tend to be a bit conservative (trying to ensure that changes don't break things, except perhaps if they are changes to improve MacOS-X compatibility and the things they break can be fixed to use the MacOS-X behavior), so they need to be able to understand patches, which means that they need small and/or simple patches. Remember, they may not be as clever as you (and are almost certainly less familiar with the patched code than you), and probably don't have the spare time to sort out complex patches.
Is it really so dreadful/dispiriting to be asked to break patches down into smaller, readily digestible versions?
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