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It didn't even require that. You fixed something from the immediately-buildable tarball that you'd rebuilt and tested, or even something that didn't need a reb
by gnufx 6y ago
It didn't even require that. You fixed something from the immediately-buildable tarball that you'd rebuilt and tested, or even something that didn't need a rebuild (config, doc, interpreted source), and sent the change, perhaps using M-x diff-backup. You didn't have pull 100Mb of git stuff, figure out how to rebuild the build framework, find you hadn't got the submodules, prat about with a pull request, and then whatever demands it makes of you, etc.
I was fine with that as a maintainer too, on three very active major projects at one time (using a 48Mb Pentium 1). A maintainer's job is partly to make it easy for contributors, not for the maintainer, but tending the contributors will help in the end.
- u801e 6y ago> You fixed something from the immediately-buildable tarball that you'd rebuilt and tested That entirely depends on whether the necessary libraries and headers are installed on the system you're using. > even something that didn't need a rebuild (config, doc, interpreted source), and sent the change, perhaps using M-x diff-backup Unless someone uses emacs and gnus or something similar, email clients could end up mangling the diff unless it was sent as an attachment (which would make reviewing the code and posting an inline response more difficult).