[OGDev] What are people working on?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:29:01PM +0000, Kake L Pugh wrote:
> On Sat 03 Mar 2007, IvorW <ivorw-openguides at xemaps.com> wrote:
> > Ideally we _should_ all be sharing our code changes with the rest of the
> > OpenGuides community. Unfortunately, there are some extremely forked
> > code bases out in the big wide world, which is making upgrades difficult
> > for some.
> 
> It might be worth starting a discussion on why people needed to fork
> in the first place.  

I have some patches to which each of these apply.

> Was it primarily because you expected to get
> around to packaging up your changes and sending in patches, but
> didn't?  

 * memcached integration falls into this category.

> Or because you wanted to do something that
> wasn't appropriate for the main distro, but couldn't work out how to
> do it separately and integrate it into your Guide unobtrusively?  
 * Geocoder.us lookups fall into this category.
 * My particular brand of spam catching falls into this category.
   "couldn't" is relative -- I might have been able to, but didn't have
   the time to. 


> Or because your patches were difficult to integrate into the
> distro for some reason? 
  * http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/11 -- posted a patch with a
    'running start', never got looked at with feedback on how I should
    change it.

My problem is I know very little perl, so I don't trust what I write,
and I don't get a feeling that I'm getting a lot of feedback on what I
should be doing to get code back to trunk. I have at least a couple
outstanding minor patches in the OG trac that I don't know the status of
or what I should do with.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer