Hi Shimrra,

On 8/30/24 8:54 PM, Shimrra Shai wrote:

Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:

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Please stop doing this!

I appreciate your intention to help, but this is not the proper way of
doing it.  This is a work-in-progress series and you should have asked
before taking over.  Please do not interfere with other people's work
without having a preliminary agreement with the author(s).

Additionally, before submitting any other patches, you should get
familiar with the process - see [1] for a starting point.

Hi Cristian,

Sorry, I did not know what the rules/norms/customs were around this
kind of thing here as I figured it was an open contribution space. I
did not know that I should have asked for agreement with you
beforehand. So go ahead and ignore this patch series if it goes
against the rules/customs. Even more if these points have already been
addressed, as redundant work is obviously not helpful.

This is an open community and, obviously, anyone is free to contribute
without asking for permission.  However, taking over an ongoing work is
nothing but a source of confusion.  You may do this for work that is known
to be abandoned, e.g. the author(s) explicitly mentioned that in one of
their last posts, or when there is no sign of activity for long enough
time (usually months, for sure not days or weeks).  In the latter case, I
find it reasonable to still ask for a confirmation that the submitter has
no intention to continue or, at least, discuss the possibilities to join
forces and help moving further.

That said, if there is some way to help along this project "the right
way", I would like to for sure! Just tell me what you'd _really_ need
help/assistance with to get this moved ahead and I'll see if I can
give it.

Getting more testing on the series, reporting back the findings and/or
providing fixes, would be much appreciated, for sure!  The goal is to land
the basic functionality first, hence any new features should be submitted
afterwards.

Regards,
Cristian