RE: [PEAR-DEV] commiting bug fixes to other peoples packages (was RE: [PEAR-DEV] #25060 [NEW]: Math_Integer/Integer/gmp.php use

On 13 Aug 2003 at 11:58, LIMBOURG Arnaud wrote: > I remember somebody telling me that people who have CVS should be able > to commit things. If the maintainer don't like it, cvs is there for a > purpose, you can always revert. Well, I wouldn't generally agree with you in this point. If multiple people keep submitting "junk" (take it as it is) that's far more work than if you send diff-files via email to the maintainer. Or if he agrees you might surely fix it yourself. In this case the fixes were quite small so the desire for "fixing it on the go" in CVS was there. But I can also very well understand Pierre's points for not letting this become a "common behaviour". It's good that people "should not" submit to CVS without prior arranging with the package-lead. And for these rare cases in which small fixes haven't been added for a long time or if a developer is unavailable for a longer time as far as I understood it we might have the "pear-group" in a not too far future. > That said if there are patches waiting for maintainer feedback and no > is provided for a length of time then i think it's ok to commit. There > will be no release anyway so that won't affect people. Yes. But you can't judge that own your own impression of the "length of time". That's a thing the pear-group will we be there for to coordinate. Stefan