Re: [BZ#13982] [PATCH 2/3] Split ar_SD into ar_SD and ar_SS

[Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail dot com>]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> Please stop committing untested patches; your recent commits have a high
> rate of problems that would have been shown up by minimal "make
> localedata/install-locales" testing.  If you can't run "make
> localedata/install-locales", don't commit patches at all; ask for other
> people to test and commit (and make clear when posting the patches that
> they are untested).

Joseph,

I believe you are overstating the extent of problems caused by "my
recent commits".  There was one particularly series of commits that I
broke into three to update the iso-3166 data (and the related locale
splits).  Admittedly there were several typos that have been caught
and corrected.

Typically my commits do not extend beyond the localedata/locales
directory, only rarely straying farther afield.  I do test locales as
I work on them and before I commit them.  I do not have a build system
set up, so I do not know if I can perform the requested "make" test or
not.

I am contributing to glibc in order to address the chronic neglect of
localedata tickets, I am proud of the work I've done and find your
unwelcoming tone to be a rather curious way to treat a newcomer that
is only trying to address an area that has been neglected for so long.
 If you did the localedata fixes that were requested, I would not have
to commit at all, but history has shown that they typically just get
ignored.

Having corrected and updated ISO-639, ISO-4217 and ISO-3166, I should
mostly confine my future work to localedata\locales where the "make"
test should not be required.