Re: Review lags [was: crm.el ...]

Jan> I did just that about a year ago -- I posted a reasonably Jan> simple patch that adds about 4 lines of code to the XEmacs Jan> code base. I brought the issue up again about three weeks Jan> ago, and a couple of days ago, but it seems continuous Jan> nagging doesn't get me anywhere. I'm sorry about that. Your patch is not one I'm competent to review. As far as I knew, Ben was aware of it (and in fact has since committed it), so I left it at that. Jan> I understand "being short-handed for developers", but this Jan> attitude will cause even more developers to go elsewhere. It's not an "attitude", it's a fact. If saying so would make developers go elsewhere, I think it's only fair to say so so they can make an informed choice: go, or ask for the authority to make it happen themselves. If you want to accept the responsibility (ie, to review _some_ of other people's small patches) and get the authority (to commit them), write to xemacs-review(a)xemacs.org and say you want to be a reviewer. I can't say it's a done deal, but I know your posts and patches well enough to support you; I suppose there are probably other reviewers who would, too. By the way, as far as I'm concerned, people who have been contributing for a while, even just bug reports, are welcome to nominate themselves to the review board. It does require that the current reviewers be able to assess your ability to review, so you need a public track record as a developer somewhere (preferably in XEmacs, of course) or a strong sponsor already on the board. You're welcome to ask for more information, from me, at least. If you know other reviewers well enough, you could ask them too (there's a list at http://www.xemacs.org/develop/jobs.html). My guess is most would welcome inquiries, but I'm the only one I _know_ does. :-) -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.