What are you doing next Friday?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, February 27, 2012 09:00:25 AM Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 05:33:25PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> > We are currently not doing that great, partly because some patch pilots
> > didn't do their shifts recently. We currently have 65 items in total in
> > the queue.
> 
> 13 of those are "add_quicklist" which is a new category that I guess got
> added recently?  Problem is there is no documentation for how to sponsor
> these kinds of items, and the patches are not packaged properly
> (i.e. the changes are applied in-line not as debian patches), and most
> haven't been forwarded upstream (or are pending being taken upstream).
> So, while they're fairly tiny items, the work to process them looks
> rather time consuming from a sponsor's perspective.

And until there's upstream agreeement to take the patch, there's also a long 
term maintenance burden that it's not obvious is worth the benefit in all 
cases.

Scott K