From 223a708278053a7ac40b09af8fdcdc694ca69dda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>
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."