[Rd] please apply my patches

[frederik at ofb.net]

Thank you, Martin. Sorry if I sounded impatient.

> Sure (it was me, not Peter, who mentioned ESS etc).

Sorry, Peter!

> Be assured that we will deal with this before the next release of R

Thank you, that works for me.

Frederick

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:57:28AM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>>   <frederik at ofb.net>
> >>>>>     on Mon, 16 May 2016 18:40:50 -0700 writes:
> 
>     > Dear R Devel, Sorry for sending so many emails, but I
>     > haven't heard that anyone is working on the patches I
>     > created.
> 
>     > A few weeks ago I wanted to do something to contribute to
>     > R because I use it a lot. I picked the most annoying bugs
>     > I could find, and created two of the simplest patches I
>     > could create,
> 
>     > but all I've had in response from the R core
>     > team (aside from briefly banning my Bugzilla account) is a
>     > lengthy explanation for why power users don't use the
>     > basic command line interface.
> 
> Well, I feel slightly irritated by this picture of what
> happened, as the very first sentence I wrote started with
> "Thank you" ... and I did mean it.
> Also, I apologize if you+ only got critique from what I wrote.
> 
>     > I'm grateful to Peter for the list of tools like ESS that
>     > people use to interface with R; but if I wanted to submit
>     > a bug to ESS then I would have sent it to a different mailing list.
> 
> If you reread what I said (or tried to say): I gave you a reason
> why I (personally) was waiting/reluctant applying your patches:
> I would not notice if I introduced a new bug, etc... and I also told
> you that I thought that (almost) everybody else from the core team would
> be in the same situation: all just reasons, Peter and I had hoped somebody
> else would step up and confirm and apply the bug fixes.
> 
> Be assured that we will deal with this before the next release of R,
> (R 3.3.1, which has not yet been scheduled). I'm sorry if this
> was not clear from what we said, we did imply it.
> 
> We also have other obligations, not the least teaching,
> students, and we have a life off screen-&-keyboard, so do have
> tad more patience, please.
> 
> Best regards,
> Martin
>