[Xesam] NRL; Need your input - Leo proposes to allow from now on only "one patch per ticket" because we are slow and discussion is endless

[Antoni Mylka]

Sebastian Faubel pisze:
>> Form my experience, it's almost impossible to come up with a working patch 
>> when suggesting something significant and especially when requesting a feature.
>>
>> There are often lots of possible ways to implement something and without the 
>> initial discussion, you get a 95% useless patch, especially if you aren't a 
>> core developer.
> 
> I agree to the above mentioned - It should not be mandatory to send in a
> patch when filing a bug report. However, a patch can often serve as a
> concrete starting point for discussion on the mailing list. I mean, that
> from a patch people can outline concrete modeling weaknesses and offer
> concrete resolutions. One difficulty when designing ontologies is not to
> get off topic and stay focused on the problem at hand. I think that this
> is what really needs to be addressed.

+1. Discussing a patch is much easier. Even if the initial version is
95% incorrect. We shouldn't require it, because that would alienate
potential external contributors. We should seriously encourage it though
at least among ourselves.

Antoni Mylka
antoni.mylka at gmail.com