Re: demo assistant

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

El Apr 30, 2010, a las 4:15 AM, deloptes <deloptes yahoo com> escribió:

> The first time I asked about assistant, you (or someone else) said  
> write a
> patch. In the meanwhile someone has done this already. If it was  
> planned it
> would be nice to know prior to spending time on it.

It was Murray who said that he would welcome a patch.  After you said  
that you could only provide the code (and not a patch), he told you  
that it would take longer to tend to the matter.

No one was working on the same thing you were working on.  As was  
already said, it is sometimes easier to start from scratch in some  
circumstances.  Please don't feel insulted that your code was not  
used.  This often happens in an open source environment.

> This is exactly like firstlevel support in an odd company, where  
> something
> is said only to bounce the customer back.
> I can not demand on more cooperativeness (as we are doing all this  
> on free
> bases), but it would be extremely nice and helpful if you'd do so.  
> (And by
> you I mean all)

Don't get confused by thinking that people that help out freely out of  
the enjoyment of programming are actually part of the company in  
charge of *mm projects.  Some of us offer our services out of a desire  
to exert our abilities and contribute to a fine open source community  
such as this one.

We post our contributions just like you do and then leave it up to the  
maintainers to accept the patches, comment on them or reject them if  
they like.  It's all part of the process.

--
José