On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:40:26 +0200 Thomas Martitz thomas.martitz@student.htw-berlin.de wrote:
We made the following observation after years with a patch tracker. If core developers are rare or lack time or can't otherwise regularly look at the patches (which is the case for Geany too), [...]
Nothing will work in this case.
The problem is that a patch tracker creates the idea that once a patch is uploaded the project is responsible for them and not the contributor.
I wonder how. A serious patch is likely to break on ~100 svn revisions, and you must update it, to be able to use it yourself.
The way I see it is that a patch tracker will not work for Geany.
+1. But it's still better than the mailing list.