I have to confess to not having monitored the SDL mailing list very
closely for quite some time (but I’m changing that), and I imagine Sam
has been distracted for the past few weeks, too.
It’s possible that some patches have slipped passed us recently. If you
sent in a good patch and feel like it was completely ignored, please let
me know and I’ll take a look at it.
Some other helpful tips for future patches:
-
If you send your patch in “hg export” format, then your name goes into
the commit logs (otherwise, I try to put a “thanks to $NAME for this
patch!” in the commit comments, but it goes into revision control under
my name). Please set up a real name and email address, and try to make
the first line of your commit message less than 80 characters, so it
looks good in the shortlog. -
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/QuickStart is a fast read, and
http://hginit.com/ will teach you everything you need to know about
Mercurial if you can spare 20 minutes. -
We’ll take anything: hg exports, patches, or even emails that say “add
this line below this other one”, but hg exports are the most
useful…they take a bit more rigid etiquette, though, so we’re flexible. -
Patches to the mailing list are good, but patches put in Bugzilla are
better. It means we can’t miss it; even if we’re really busy, it’ll
still be there when we get time, and it won’t be drowned out in a sea of
non-patch mailing list discussion. Feel free to mention the bugzilla
post on the mailing list (and free free to nag about it if you feel it
isn’t getting attention).
Thanks!
–ryan.