On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:52:45PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote:
>
> I would offer a patch, but every patch I've offered in the past has been
> ignored.  Back when I did have a good attitude about this project, and
> thought it was really good.


On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:45:46PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:18:39PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> 
> > See above.  And please, please check your attitude at the door.  If you 
> > want to make amanda better, join the -hackers list and get hacking.
>  
> I did.  I am still on -hackers.  I spent the last 4 years working on real
> problems and submitting patches for them.  Only to see them ignored.  Not
> rejected for any given reason, just ignored.  So now I'm tired of being
> ignored and frustrated by the long-standing and oft-reported bugs in tape
> handling.  What do you expect?


Joe,

You have made similar statements a number of times.  It disturbs be
that something like that would happen.  Not being one of the amanda
developers, I certainly was not responsible for the slight, but that
should not happen and it is quite distinct from the response I encountered
when I suggested any patches.  Things were accepted, rejected, and one
was greatly enhanced by a better coder.  But none were ignored.

So I tried to look into what happened to your submissions.

I keep an personal archive of -users and -hackers though I can't claim
they have 100% of all articles posted they have the vast majority.
My -hackers archive goes back to mid-1999 and has nearly 3000 articles.
Here is what I found posted under your name.

  Nov 2000   7 posts    Suggested changes to chg-zd-mtx
  Jun 2003   4 posts    Discussion of Win32 client
  Oct 2003   1 post     Question about using amrecover
  Jan 2004   4 posts    Discussion of chg-mtx
  Feb 2004   1 post     Question about amanda development status

I only found the one submission for enhancements to chg-zd-mtx.  That
submission was accepted and your contribution is attributed in the code.

Would you point me to your other submissions so that I can check into
what happend and why they were mishandled.

Thanks,
jon
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