[parted-devel] Why are contributions to parted ignored?

[Jim Meyering]

"Eagle Jones" <eagle at newdream.net> wrote:
> Hello. I submitted a patch on May 30th, and followed up the next day
> confirming that said patch was functional and stable. I have received
> no acknowledgement or comment from anyone here. If those in charge of
> this project don't care about the patch I submitted, that's perfectly
> OK of course, but at least a one-line "Not interested" sort of reply
> might have been nice. I read as much of the contributions guidelines
> and whatnot as I could find, but if I missed something critical in
> terms of formatting or coding style, please let me know. I'll correct
> it and resubmit.
>
> Reference:
> [parted-devel] [PATCH] Support for Apple TV Recovery Partition
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2007-May/001732.html
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2007-May/001749.html

I'm interested, and even looked over the patch a week or two ago.
It looks good, by the way.  Yes, I should have replied, sooner.

You can help expedite matters by adding a small test case to
exercise the new code.  Preferably, a test that fails on the
current code but works with your patch and demonstrates what
it changes.  No big deal if you don't have time to write the
test script.  Just providing a sequence of parted/dd/etc
commands to operate on a file-based file system would be great.
You can find examples in tests/t*.in.

Also, your patch is large enough that we'll need a copyright
assignment from you.  Are you in a position to assign copyright
to the FSF (i.e., no employer with rights to all your work).
Then, depending on whether this is a one-shot contribution
or if you may continue to contribute (let me know), I'll send
the appropriate form.