Re: Introduction, Drizzle PECL module

Am 17.02.2011 10:05, schrieb Andrew Hutchings:

On 17/02/11 09:00, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com <mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com>> wrote: that's up for the maintainer(s), let him some time to reply. sure, I just thought from Andrew's mail that they already tried that without luck

Yes, but the easy alternative for us is to fork it on Launchpad and send patches to PECL upstream. We can then use Launchpad for DEBs and RPMs.

Andrew, Pierre is neither the owner of PECL nor did he give you a final "no". He pointed out good practise of giving the maintainer a chance to raise his voice - in public. As a sign of good will, Pierre applied your patch almost immediately. I'm sure you tried to contact James, the maintainer of the PECL package. However, anybody could claim that. Please do not take it personally, if someone ask to follow good practise of trying to ping the maintainer - in public. If I would be James, I would find it only fair to see a reasonable wait period for him. If you have more patches, please attach to bugs and send reminders about the bugs to the list for the time until everybody feels happy with giving you repository access or changing the maintainer. I'm sure one or the other guy on the list will apply the patches for you. Providing tests makes it, as usual, more likely for your patch to be accepted. Your repository access is only few patches away... Think days, not weeks. Well in time for a release in a month. Of course, if you want to fork you are free to do so. Ulf