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* A problem with old bugs
@ 2017-03-01  8:22 Marcin Borkowski
  2017-03-01 10:26 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2017-03-01  8:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs Devel

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



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2017-03-01  8:22 A problem with old bugs Marcin Borkowski
2017-03-01 10:26 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-03-01 13:28   ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-03-02  7:38     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-03-02 12:33       ` Noam Postavsky
2017-03-02 16:53         ` Richard Stallman
2017-03-07  6:17         ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-03-06 13:19     ` Phillip Lord
2017-03-07  6:16       ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-03-07 12:24         ` Phillip Lord
2017-03-01 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-07  6:15   ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-03-07 16:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-08  7:01       ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-03-08 16:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-21 16:00 ` John Wiegley

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