Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2002 08:58:38 +0100 |
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On January 30, 2002 08:41 am, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Exactly. The successor patch to the 'kind of gross' patch got rid of the > > double-pointers, it was the proper fix, though there is still no excuse for > > leaving the bug hanging around while coming up with the better version. > > The gross fixes tend to get dropped because if they're in, the proper fix > loses priority. FIXMEs can take many years to fix. The problem seems not > to be the dropping of the patch so much as the dropping of the bug report > and bug tracking is an altogether different problem.
The problem was the dropping of the patch. A bunch of things contributed to it, and at this point I believe the main one was having no patch submission system. I should know, I was on the dirty end of this stick.
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