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[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 05:02, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> Stephan Hermann wrote:
> >  "Emmet Hikory" wrote:
> >  >     While this is often the case, there are sometimes dependencies
> >  > between packages that mean that other packages must be merged first.
> >  > Also, depending on the focus of the individual developer, it may be
> >  > that upgrading a specific package is of significant importance towards
> >  > meeting some goal, and so efforts on that package may be prioritised.
> >
> >  Yes...for this there is, as mentioned, IRC or eMail to ask the last
> >  uploader to take care about it, or if there is no message in time, I
> >  would do the merge myself, or a contributor is doing it, and ping on
> >  the channel for sponsoring...
>
>     Sure, but it's the definition of "in time" that causes the very
> event that sparked this thread.  There is nothing more demotivating
> than performing work and having it discarded without comment, or
> ignored completely.
>
Agreed, but the system that completely solves this problem (and I'm entirely 
sympathetic to the contributor who's work was ignored, that should be 
minimized - and an apology from the MOTU in question would be useful - if 
that's me, let me know) would also be a lot less fun to work in.  We need to 
be careful that in optimizing for this case we don't optimize volunteers out 
of contributing.

Scott K