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Someone take control of Magnet.

by EvanCarroll (Chaplain)
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Re: Someone take control of Magnet.
by ysth (Canon) on Aug 06, 2010 at 18:38 UTC
    Without regard to the rest of this, I don't see "rudely disregarded" there or see that you have any reason for complaining that it took a week to get a feature added. I think you need to adjust your expectations; people usually want to have some control over the code they release, and even reviewing someone else's patch and putting out a new release takes time. It's even reasonable for that time to be in months, not days or weeks.

    If you need a fix earlier, use a patched version. If you want to make it available for others, publish your patch or a distroprefs.

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Re: Someone take control of Magnet.
by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Aug 06, 2010 at 18:43 UTC

    First RT: brief because it was posted from a mobile device. After submitting patch, test case, etc, it was accepted, patched, released, and thanked. Volunteers and all of that.

    Second RT: I see no link to the patches mentioned in the RT. Perhaps linking them to the RT might get a response. (3 days, really?).

    Take a step back, read your post, look at your own self-elevated position (signature, for example), and remember that this is free support. You aren't paying for rapid turnaround.

    --MidLifeXis

Re: Someone take control of Magnet.
by moritz (Cardinal) on Aug 06, 2010 at 18:38 UTC

    Sorry, I don't believe that what you wrote is the whole truth.

    I've dealt with Matt before, and I found him to be quite reasonable - as long as I've been reasonable too. I can't believe he banned you without good reason, especially judging your history of not-very-productive posts on this site, to say the least.

    If you talk about your ban from magnet, please be so kind to tell the full story.

    And I somehow can't believe you expect people to simply forget the first part of the story, whatever it is.

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Re: Someone take control of Magnet.
by DrHyde (Prior) on Aug 09, 2010 at 10:08 UTC
    Man, it took a whole six days for someone to have the time to review and apply your patch. You'd better not try to contribute to any of my modules, cos I sometimes take *months* to get round to even acknowledging requests, let alone applying patches!
      Make that "years" :) I got a response to one of my RT tickets after 3 years IIRC. However, if the bug/patch is crucial, I don't care whether the issue is fixed or not and just fork it (as long as the license is ok) or use another one if available.
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Re: Someone take control of Magnet.
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 07, 2010 at 08:58 UTC
    Without taking sides in this argument (not interested in the details), if irc.perl.org has channels for reporting bugs (and appears to be), STOP BANNING BUG REPORTERS (not interested in your reasons).

      As far as I know, there has been a cleanup of the ircops of magnet in the sense of banning repeat offenders/trolls from that irc network in an effort to make (for example) #perl a nice, welcoming community. I've listened to reports telling that they have succeeded.

      I think the ircops would potentially need to re-evaluate whether they care about bug reports for a module via irc more than about exercising their right over access to the network.

      RT appears to work for the distribution in question; there's no alternate preferred ticket channel marked, and RT has resolved bugs for the distro.

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