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[Bioc-devel] patches submitted earlier today

4 messages · Allen Day, Ben Bolstad, Robert Gentleman

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Allen Day
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For the patches I submitted earlier today, can I expect the
maintainers to reply on this list regarding the acceptance / rejection
of the patch?  I'm currently maintaining patched RPMs for these R
packages and I need to know if I can drop my custom packages out of
the build process.

Thanks.
-Allen
Ben Bolstad
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Note that mailing list software will often strip attachments and so your
patches might not be attached to your message by the time it reaches the
maintainer.

Also it always helps if you explain what your patch is intended to do, and
explain which versions of the packages you have been testing with.

Best,

Ben
Robert Gentleman
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Hi Allen,
   I think you misunderstand the process here. If you are patching a 
package, then I suggest that you contact the maintainer of that package 
directly and interact with them. They may or may not want your patch, 
and it is their software, it does not belong to the list. If you had 
checked your mail to the list you would see that the patches were 
stripped - so I think you should not expect them to be applied.

   I also think that it is a bit naive to send patches from some 
anonymous email account and expect anyone to take your seriously, but 
that is entirely your call.

  best wishes
    Robert
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That's fine with me.  I didn't know the patch submission procedure.
Is it documented somewhere?  I assumed that the maintainers of
packages subscribe here, or at the very least I'd be able to bounce it
off subscribers to bioc-devel to get some valuable feedback (which I
did).

            

      
      
      
    

        
Odd, my mail client shows the attachments went out okay.  Maybe there
was some trouble because I forwarded, or because I switched my
subscribed email address in the middle of the thread.  I was
previously subscribed from .ucla.edu domain, but now I subscribe from
.gmail.com.

Does this address your concern over my current .gmail.com email
domain?  Ideally I'd be taken seriously proportional to the quality of
my postings rather than the domain of origin.

Thanks for the heads up, and sorry for the attachment confusion.

-Allen