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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:59:56 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
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Subject: Re: I want to help
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> [020403 17:01] wrote:
> > What I found instead was that each of the problems I had found had already
> > been PR'd and patches were submitted with the PRs, so the problems and the
> > fixes have just been sitting there going stale for months.  In one case I
> > found the exact same problem reported in two open PRs (months apart) with
> > different fixes available.

[ ... ]

> Sometimes a strongly worded:
> 
>   "this bug has had a perfectly viable fix sitting in GNATS for a month
>    can someone _please_ take a look at it"
> 
> what works even better is tacking onto a developer you know and
> mailing them personally.  sometimes just seeing a message like
> that and 100% of the viewers are like, "well someone will commit
> that" and no one does. :)


Translation: "Send email to Alfred".

-- Terry

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