andrew morton wrote
Well I haven't had time for either but since you asked... I've burned out on reviewing because I'd get excited about a patch try to help it along and then.... nothing... it just gets ignored and never committed or commented on by a committer. Sort of hard to stay motivated to keep throwing good time after bad.
Although I haven't either submitted nor reviewed patches for drupal core, I can acknowledge this point because I see this with modules. Many of the modules I need for 6.x were still in beta or not even upgraded to 6.x, so I tried to write and patch a lot of stuff by myself. With some modules, I got feedback quite fast and so I went on patching and improving for those. But when you spent two weeks full-time work to add a feature (like attaching files for comments to use that in forums) and then get nothing but silence for weeks, not even a "I will look at or test this", then you definitely lose motivation to do any other patch for this module. I'm not blaming module maintainers for this, since they might just not have enough time to care about all this or more important things (or "real life" :-)) to do or whatever. Although this is the view from the other side, I'm sure this is the same reviewing. People just want feedback about work they did, otherwise they are disappointed and stop contributing. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *