[wp-hackers] 24-hour has-patch marathon TODAY

[Chris Williams]

Thank you to those who promptly reviewed and accepted this patch.


> From: Chris Williams <chris at clwill.com>
> Reply-To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:03:25 -0700
> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] 24-hour has-patch marathon TODAY
> 
> OK, well then.  Two months ago I found a bug, created a trivial test case to
> prove it, put it in Trac (see:  http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9146),
> immediately put in the appropriate patch -- exactly as I was told to here.
> Nothing has happened to it.  AFAIK, nobody with any power has even looked at
> it.  No feedback, no action, nada.
> 
> Hard to get excited about finding and fixing bugs when the process is obtuse
> and with little/no feedback.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
>> From: "Ibrahim A. Mohamed" <bingorabbit at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
>> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:27:47 +0200
>> To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] 24-hour has-patch marathon TODAY
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I think it will be better if you stopped this discussion and found some
>> patches to test or to add to the opened tickets, wasting your time in a
>> letter typed here - that won't change something that is already on - can be
>> a letter in the code typed there.
>> 
>> Thanks in Advance!
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Dougal Campbell <dougal at gunters.org>wrote:
>> 
>>> Mike Schinkel wrote:
>>> 
>>>> "Matt Martz" <mdmartz at sivel.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> If you read the dev blog then you should have heard about this 2 days ago
>>>>> when the post was made.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 2 days is still very short notice.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I agree. Especially when one of those days is Tax Day here in the U.S. I
>>> was one of the procrastinators who spent all day yesterday finishing up my
>>> taxes (and really it wasn't just procrastination -- my family has had a lot
>>> going on that made it hard to make time for it before now), so I didn't see
>>> the info about it until this morning. If it had been scheduled about a week
>>> later, I might have been able to participate in some patch testing/creation.
>>> :-/
>>> 
>>> That said, I think the original complaint kind of banged on Automattic a
>>> bit unfairly. There's nothing to stop us "regular" WP community members from
>>> contributing our thoughts, code, patches, testing, etc. at any given time.
>>> On the other hand, since Automattic *does* basically have the role of
>>> Benevolent Dictator, it *would* be nice if they'd lay out the Roadmap a
>>> little more clearly/transparently and communicate upcoming
>>> milestones/deadlines in advance.
>>> 
>>> I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'. ;)
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Dougal Campbell <dougal at gunters.org>
>>> http://dougal.gunters.org/
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Mohamed
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