R devel - May 2016 - unix readline signal handling patches

Hello R Developers,

I posted some patches yesterday to your bug tracking system but I'm
not sure if I should have notified the mailing list as well. I haven't
gotten any responses yet.

https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16603

https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16604

Thank you,

Frederick

Dear R Developers,

I wrote to this list a week ago with some patches that fix bugs in R's
GNU Readline interface, but I haven't had a reply. I'm not in a hurry
but I'd like to make sure that my message is getting read by the right
people. Should I be sending my patches somewhere else?

Thank you,

Frederick

>>>>>   <frederik at ofb.net>
>>>>>     on Wed, 11 May 2016 23:00:20 -0700 writes:
    > Dear R Developers,
    > I wrote to this list a week ago with some patches that fix bugs in
R's
    > GNU Readline interface, but I haven't had a reply. I'm not in a
hurry
    > but I'd like to make sure that my message is getting read by the
right
    > people. Should I be sending my patches somewhere else?

Thank you Frederick for your reports and patches.
You did send them to the correct place, https://bugs.r-project.org/

Sometimes (as here) a combination of circumstances do lead to
nobody picking them up quickly.
In this case,

- probably none of R-core use or even have easy access to Arch Linux
  so we cannot easily veryify that there is a bug at all
  nor -consequently- veryify that your patch does fix the bug.

- no other user has confirmed the bug on his/her platform, so
  there did not seem a huge demand...

- Accidentally many in R core may be busy with other bugs, teaching, .....
  and just lack the extra resources to delve into these problems
  at the current moment.

Hence, there was not even an 'Acknowledged' change to your
reports--indeed as nobody had been able to see there is a problem
existing outside of your personal computer.

I agree that this must seem a bit frustrating to you.

--
Martin