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Re: would love it if more people made contributions?
Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:
> Sorry for not responding. Since setup.exe support is a team effort
> these days, I assume that everyone thought that everyone else would
> respond.
Yes. We get such messages on the gnu-music-discuss list too. Was it
really that bad? :-)
> I know that I didn't respond because of a few things: 1) You said that
> the patch was untested, and I didn't have time to test it, 2) Your patch
> didn't adhere to the guidelines on contrib.html, 3) Your patch did not
> seem to be against the current sources, which would potentially mean
> that there would be a lot of effort getting it into the current sources.
Ok. I'll fix these things and get back with a new version, modulo any
discussion that follows, of course.
> So, I probably should have just responded and mentioned all of this. I
> did have your email in my queue of things to respond to. I'm sorry that
> I (or some other developer) didn't respond sooner.
That's ok, the volume of cygwin is rather high. Glad this message
caught your attention.
> This kind of functionality has always been something that we've been
> interested in adding to setup.exe.
Ok, that's all I wanted to hear. Testing is rather awkward for me
too, and it's little use polishing a patch that noone's interested
in. See, I'm lazy too.
Greetings,
Jan.
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org
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