[Dbix-class] Fwd: DBIx::Class patch: better error diagnostics

[Matt S Trout]

On 6 Dec 2006, at 16:17, Marc Espie wrote:
> Also, let me explain where I'm coming from. I expect you'll  
> understand it,
> since we're both busy people. ;-)
> I'm one of the guys working on the packages in OpenBSD. In this line
> of work, I routinely write corrections and bug-fixes to hundreds of  
> programs.
>
> I've noticed, over the recent years, that `the entry barrier' has  
> gotten
> worse.   In many cases, if you want to contribute in a casual way, you
> now have to jump through hurdles, like subscribing to a mailing-list,
> waiting for the email to come back, or subscribe to some mozilla  
> mechanism,
> on the web, or some such, and get all the stuff that goes with it:  
> a new
> password to remember, and possibly spam for months to come, when your
> report gets handled.

Point taken.

> In my opinion, if you want people to contribute to the DBIx::Class
> ml directly, you have to write, seriously that people should write  
> directly
> to DBIx::Class, and that no subscription will be required... some  
> people
> will make the effort to contribute anyways, some others will simply go
> away or keep their patches for themselves.

We tried no subscription. That resulted in stuff getting lost amongst  
spam in the mod queue. Forcing a subscription is annoying, but less  
annoying than having useful e-mails lost.

Better suggestions welcome.

(and note I did forward your patch to the list myself with a  
suggestion somebody applied it :)

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