<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Daniel Lazarenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielo@opera.com" target="_blank">danielo@opera.com</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
I’ve made a patch for a bug # 137299, and it’s been waiting for review for more than 30 days now.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Did you contact the relevant reviewers on IRC and by emails? In my experience, posting a patch or commenting on WebKit is rarely a sufficient way to get a reviewer's attention if you want a better turn round time.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I was always thinking that open source projects are open to changes and collaboration.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I would point out, however, that we are not obligated to take anyone's patch just for the sake of open-ness and collaboration. We only take patches that match our project goals (<a href="http://www.webkit.org/projects/goals.html">http://www.webkit.org/projects/goals.html</a>) for example (I'm not saying your patch doesn't fit our goals), and reviewers judge whether a patch will merit the project or not on case-by-case basis.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">There should be some rules for such cases when only one person can review, but he/she is so busy that practically it’s not going to happen.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm highly opposed to creating such a rule.</div><div><br></div><div>- R. Niwa</div></div></div></div>