From 223a708278053a7ac40b09af8fdcdc694ca69dda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Holovaty Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 14:17:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added note to docs/contributing.txt about nobody responding on django-developers git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@2830 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/contributing.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/contributing.txt b/docs/contributing.txt index be3cbe232d..4387424a3b 100644 --- a/docs/contributing.txt +++ b/docs/contributing.txt @@ -178,6 +178,13 @@ repository: judgment, please bring things up on the `django-developers`_ mailing list before making the change. + If you bring something up on `django-developers`_ and nobody responds, + please don't take that to mean your idea is great and should be + implemented immediately because nobody contested it. Django's lead + developers don't have a lot of time to read mailing-list discussions + immediately, so you may have to wait a couple of days before getting a + response. + * Write detailed commit messages in the past tense, not present tense. * Good: "Fixed Unicode bug in RSS API."