Robert,
> Absolutely. And I am perfectly well aware that we have screwed this
> up from time to time. But I also know that I have spent a very large
> amount of time over the last few years trying to improve things. It
> would be nice to know whether that has had any impact. If it hasn't,
> then half of what I have spent the last two years doing has been a
> waste of time.
That would take pretty significant research; it's not like we have a
database of idea/WIP submissions. It's all e-mail.
Not that it wouldn't be worth doing, but it would be an entire day of
someone's time.
BTW, I do still believe that step 1 is tremendously expanding the "so
you want to submit a patch" documentation, and linking it in many places
so that newbies read it. On my TODO list.
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Josh Berkus
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