where to send patches to R source code
On 12 May 2016, at 10:03 , Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
<frederik at ofb.net> on Wed, 11 May 2016 23:00:20 -0700 writes:
Dear R Developers, I wrote to this list a week ago with some patches that fix bugs in R's GNU Readline interface, but I haven't had a reply. I'm not in a hurry but I'd like to make sure that my message is getting read by the right people. Should I be sending my patches somewhere else?
Thank you Frederick for your reports and patches. You did send them to the correct place, https://bugs.r-project.org/ Sometimes (as here) a combination of circumstances do lead to nobody picking them up quickly. In this case, - probably none of R-core use or even have easy access to Arch Linux so we cannot easily veryify that there is a bug at all nor -consequently- veryify that your patch does fix the bug.
Actually, the bugs look like they should apply fairly generally, just maybe not bothering all that many people. But there could be portability issues with the fixes, so I suspect some of us were waiting for "a readline expert" to check them out. -pd BTW: Anyone with a fix for the stuck-at-eol issue? (aaa<right>bbb<left>ccc)
- no other user has confirmed the bug on his/her platform, so there did not seem a huge demand... - Accidentally many in R core may be busy with other bugs, teaching, ..... and just lack the extra resources to delve into these problems at the current moment. Hence, there was not even an 'Acknowledged' change to your reports--indeed as nobody had been able to see there is a problem existing outside of your personal computer. I agree that this must seem a bit frustrating to you. -- Martin
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