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On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:24:35PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > > However, the patches I've been posting are being ignored. I'm not > > claiming this is being done purposely, but the phenomenon is occurring: > And for other lurkers, I don't ignore patches (Hi, Salvador.) > They're just in that special inbox of mine I use to sort them... I think that there is a problem here, and I don't know how to resolve it. Specifically because it's no-one's paid job to hold the fort, responding to bug reports and patches, it falls to volunteers to do it. And assuming volunteers exist, they still have to fit it in round everything else, which means that it things may not happen as quickly as we'd all like. This statement still holds true even though I'm currently being paid by TPF to work on core perl, because everything on my grant is a specific named item, most of which have been festering in the TODO for some time, and none of it is about "just keep up to date with things". Maybe I should have budgeted some time in the grant for "holding the fort" but I assumed that it would have stood less chance of being approved, so I did not. And even if I had, this doesn't solve the problem long term - after this grant is over there won't be anyone paid to work on any part of the perl core (as far as I am aware). Certainly I'm not in a position to put in a grant request for this as I need to find a new (full time, commercial rate) job. How do other open source languages, such as Lua, Python, Ruby and Tcl, cope with day to day maintenance tasks? Are they all volunteer based, or do they have some paid employees, either directly paid for or donated by $language- using companies? Nicholas ClarkThread Previous