On 02/02/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
I eventually volunteered that I would commit it if you finished it, and that offer still holds. As for the general case, unfortunately, yes, people ignoring patches is a problem, but there's not much that can be done about that in a volunteer project.
The general pattern also often comes because patches affect issues that are deceptively innocuous, when in fact they are very complex, or because people don't have the time to review the stuff properly. The last thing we want to do is introduce some sort of breakage to the code base, and this is especially the case for newer committers.
Arnomane did the Right Thing; he posted the patch, and he kept reminding people about it; persistence is the name of the game, because persistence shows a willingness to improve the patch if feedback is given, and persistence shows that the patch will be maintained until it is applied.
I believe Leon has now committed the patch in question; pending some sort of review of whether or not it works (how will we tell?), the rest of the language files could be updated.
Rob Church