Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3464 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <adamtaunowilliams@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > A patch just out-there will be of little value.  It very possibly won't
> > apply to future versions or will become a bug if people do apply it.
> > Bug/patch trackers and code repositories exist for very good reason.
> Exactly so.
> But submitting patches to your Distro of choice ought to be fairly easy
> and let the distro's package manager decide if it fixes something upstream
> and submit it in a professional way. 

No, that won't work.  If you expect the distro maintainer(s) to be the
gatekeepers of all patches to included packages the system will grind to
a nearly complete halt.

> It does not seem reasonable that I, joe user, who can read a little bit
> of C should be submitting patches.

Wrong, that is the entire principle of Open Source.


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