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Re: A problem with old bugs
From: |
Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: A problem with old bugs |
Date: |
Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:28:40 +0100 |
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mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 |
On 2017-03-01, at 11:26, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
> () Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden>
> () Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:22:55 +0100
>
> Unfortunately, I have to say that I got very little feedback.
> [...] I do understand the main reason (too few developers,
> the bugs were not critical), but I have to say that the
> situation isn't exactly motivating for me.
>
> Is there anything that could be done to avoid turning off
> people wanting to help with Emacs development? Did I choose
> wrong bugs to work on? If so, should I close them as
> "wontfix", even though (in 2 cases) there are actual patches
> that seem to fix them?
>
> Do you have write privs to the repo?
Nope. What do I do to get them?
> If so, perhaps you can find motivation from installing changes
> directly and dealing w/ any discussion that ensues, rather than
> From positive feedback in discussion pre-commit. This is the
> vaunted "better to ask forgiveness than ask permission" model.
> Of course, it's not always so much fun discussing one's mistakes
> in public but (take it from someone w/ lots of experience making
> mistakes :-D), it does get easier w/ practice. Sez Perlis:
>
> Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve.
> Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong
> problem. Work hard to improve.
;-)
> I take from this: Satisfaction (and thus motivation to continue)
> comes from the hard work applied towards improvement. What to
> improve? Emacs, yourself, Emacs and yourself, Emacs and others.
>
> If not (no write privs), why not? What are you waiting for?
Nobody gave them to me.
What should be the workflow once I have them? I assume that I branch
off fresh master, push my branch and write here - correct?
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
Re: A problem with old bugs, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/03/01