From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please check-in Belanger's Calc patches Date: 13 Jul 2004 12:42:24 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87fz7vls73.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> References: Reply-To: kfogel@red-bean.com NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089764439 17623 80.91.224.253 (14 Jul 2004 00:20:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: belanger@truman.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 14 02:20:31 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BkXVf-0007fP-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:20:31 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BkXVf-0007J8-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:20:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BkXY3-0003LU-JK for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:22:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BkXXO-00035C-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BkXXN-00034F-1y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BkXXM-00033x-Rg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:22:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [207.115.63.78] (helo=pimout6-ext.prodigy.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BkXUF-0007ZB-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:19:03 -0400 Original-Received: from floss.red-bean.com (adsl-65-42-95-177.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [65.42.95.177]) by pimout6-ext.prodigy.net (8.12.10 milter /8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6E0I2vU149502; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from kfogel by floss.red-bean.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1BkRIO-0000KB-00; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:42:24 -0500 Original-To: "Tacvek" Emacs: because you deserve a brk today. In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25670 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25670 "Tacvek" 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