From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: A problem with old bugs Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:22:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87r32h9zj4.fsf@jane> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488356611 23661 195.159.176.226 (1 Mar 2017 08:23:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 08:23:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50 To: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 01 09:23:27 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cizXh-0005WW-NX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:23:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39022 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cizXn-0005Kp-QV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 03:23:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60185) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cizWq-0005JP-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 03:22:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cizWl-00063Q-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 03:22:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:54719) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cizWl-00062p-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2017 03:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07017E619D for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2017 09:22:23 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JUOIkM0jhI7h for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2017 09:22:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [83.13.149.242]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9E234E6052 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2017 09:22:19 +0100 (CET) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:212674 Archived-At: Hi there, I'm sorry to say that I'm a bit sad. A few months ago (maybe a year) there was a call to so some work on old, outstanding bugs. I volunteered for that, and while I did not spend /a lot/ of time on that, I feel that I did indeed help a bit. Then, I proceeded to actually fix a few bugs that were within my reach. I sent a patch fixing 21072, then a patch fixing one bug I did not formally submit (but both the bug and the patch are seemingly quite trivial), and then wanted to start discussion on 19873. Unfortunately, I have to say that I got very little feedback. There was some discussion (John's on testing, Eli's on my stupid mistakes etc.), but my patches/emails are mainly left there undecided. 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. I will try to continue work on some bugs for the next week or two, but I guess I'll stop then, since at this moment it doesn't feel to have a lot of sense anyway, and I have a lot of ways to spend my time in a meaningful way... 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? Best, -- Marcin Borkowski