Re: Studying and Maintaining GNAT, Is There Any Interest in a New Group?

[Rene <rehartmann@t-online.de>]

Am 26.08.2018 um 01:16 schrieb Paul Rubin:
> Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>> I'm far from expert on GCC procedures, but all three of the Ada
>> front-end maintainers (see [1]) are AdaCore employees, and I don't think
>> you're going to get approval for updates to Ada internals from anyone
>> else.
> 
> Unless you've got some particular reason to believe that (e.g. based on
> experience submitting patches), I tend to be skeptical.  Most FOSS
> projects love getting good patches (patches that work, are tested,
> conform to the project's standards and interfaces, etc.)  What they
> don't like is "homework assignments", i.e. someone else coming along and
> telling them to do some work (unless they are a paying customer of
> course).
> 

I agree. The proposal sounds a bit like "Hey, I have a great idea what 
needs to be done but somebody has to do (most of) it."

If you approach people like this you probably will hear the answer "I'm 
sorry, your idea may be great, but you have do it yourself because 
nobody will do it for you."