Re: Subscribe maintainers list to the bug/patch tracker [was "Patch to make common octave_dock_widget class"]

[Richard Crozier]

On 07/02/2013 20:51, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 02/07/2013 02:14 PM, Carnë Draug wrote:
> > On 7 February 2013 19:30, c.<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > On 7 Feb 2013, at 19:40, Carnë Draug<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > > On 7 February 2013 13:56, c.<address@hidden>  wrote:

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I announced the patch on the list because they can *seem* to go 
unnoticed on the tracker, probably because bugs have higher priority. I 
would not announce a bug on the list. The reason for announcing a patch 
is to prevent someone else doing the same work unnecessarily, not 
knowing the patch exists. There are some seriously old patches on the 
tracker that are still marked as open which adds to the fear of it being 
forgotten/going unnoticed.

The patch tracker traffic seems very low, and has less noise than the 
bug tracker (probably because you have to take considerably more 
proactive action to submit a patch than report a suspected bug) which is 
why I would vote for subscribing the list to the patch tracker, but not 
the bug tracker.

Richard


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