Re: Please check-in Belanger's Calc patches

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@floss.red-bean.com>]

"Tacvek" <unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com> writes:
> Perhaps the emacs developers are slow, but i find it unreasonable that a bug
> with a patch approved by a compenents maintainer has been waiting 3/4 of a
> year before getting checked in. Yet this is the case with Belanger's Calc
> patches. they were approved by the Calc maintainer
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-10/msg00719.html), and
> posted to the list twice, the second time by an indirect request from RMS
> himself
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-02/msg00437.html).
> 
> I believe the patches may now be slightly out of date, so can you remake
> them against the current cvs, Belanger?
> 
> I ask that this problem be fixed, and included in the next minor release.

I might be missing some background here, but is there some reason the
Calc maintainer can't commit these changes?  When patches are approved
by the component maintainer, then normally the maintainer just checks
them in.

IOW, why is this situation special?

Thanks,
-Karl