Comment 16 for bug 71228

I completely agree with what madbiologist and Matt Perry said. This is completely not a fair process. That is why I prefer to get patches into Distros first and then later think of getting it upstream. Why? Because more popular and established upstreams are very busy and don't have the time to review patches. You may call me 'impatient' which I am. I agree it is my fault, to some extent.

Same goes to some extent for the Ubuntu developers. They are also very busy and don't have the time to review each and every bug with patches. You either need to poke them manually, or, like I do, add the packaging stuff to the patch and then poke 'em. This is what I suggested Matt Perry to do. However, everyone may not know how to package. This is one case where patches are ignored. Never forget that the maverick Feature Freeze is just round the corner and we are still at just 11% progress in Operation Cleansweep.

I have been quite much successful in my packaging-and-patching journey till now, as I aim to become MOTU one day. Well, you may call me impatient again, which I agree I am. But, I suggest you patch-makers also to learn some basics of packaging and then try to get your patches into. This will also give you credit and your bug fix uploads will appear on your uploaded-packages page on your Launchpad profile, like mine https://edge.launchpad.net/~bilalakhtar/+uploaded-packages .