[development] Give a guy some love! (or at least some attention)

[Craig Courtney]

Moshe Weitzman wrote:

> Steve Dondley wrote:
>
>> Even if you think the patch at http://drupal.org/node/37283 sucks, I
>> want to know!
>
>
> please don't beg for attention to your issue on this mail list. if you 
> are not getting anyone to review your patch, you might email some key 
> contributors privately. or ask in IRC. we moved issue posting away 
> from this list for a reason.

While that change was well intended please don't pretend it did not have 
negative consequences.  It seems like 4.7 will never get to a stable 
point to freeze and RC.  When I picked up 4.7 a few weeks ago to 
evaluate for use (which seemed reasonable since I had read about a code 
freeze several weeks prior to that) it was pretty much non functional.  
Fundamental bugs in new forms API code (http://drupal.org/node/35570, 
http://drupal.org/node/35225, http://drupal.org/node/35594) have sat 
idle for 3 weeks and others where independently fixed after I delivered 
patches that did not know about the issues I'd filed (or at least they 
did not update my issues).  That is not the behavior of a healthy 
system.  When I was actively working on items for the 4.5 release it was 
never this bad.

Craig