[xmonad] Re: darcs patch: XMonad.Core: rw recompilation

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

gwern0:

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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:50 PM,   wrote:

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1 patch for repository http://code.haskell.org/xmonad:

Sat Apr 10 13:45:52 EDT 2010  gwern0@gmail.com  * XMonad.Core: rw recompilation  This diverts the intermediate *.o *.hi files to /tmp, so they don't clutter up ~/.xmonad/

Ping.

Rather than send an email for each patch that has been submitted but not applied, which risks spamming and annoying people, I would suggest a more constructive mechanism: write a single status report email with all the ones that you think are ready to go, and do that maybe once a month.

This is a worthy task, and I'm glad you're taking it on, but adding more email to my inbox doesn't help me get to the work.

-- Don

I did try that for a year or so. It got minimal results - persistent backlogs, few comments or replies. So, I switched to individual patches, which also let me set ultimatums for XMC; that has seemed to work much better. (I would like to run the numbers, but I don't know any way to ask Darcs for when a patch was applied to a given repo, as opposed to when a patch was recorded; with the former, I could check on things like 'did the average time before a patch was dealt with definitively shrink or expand when gwern switched email styles?') As I've suggested before: if you and Spencer are so overloaded as to be unable to review modest patches given half a year, why not give a third person the core commit bit? I wouldn't trust myself with the core, but is there no one else? Joachim Breitner, for example, since he's already patching Xmonad-core under his Debian maintainer hat. -- gwern