[ros-users] Submitting patches protocol

[Brian Gerkey]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Nicholas Butko <nbutko at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Sorry, this is not a ros specific question but one that I guess is general to open source projects, and in this case OpenCV in particular.
>
> I saw on the trac site a bug about a particularly heinous memory leak in the OpenCV OSX windowing code. This issue went unaddressed for something like two months. I have fixed it, and attached a patch. I'm wondering what is the protocol to get the patch noticed and picked up.
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> For now I have just attached the patch to the ticket and marked it as "accepted" by me.

hi Nick,

Thanks very much for the fix.  A ticket like this one
(https://code.ros.org/trac/opencv/ticket/253) should only be closed by
a developer after the fix has been committed to the repo.  I reopened
it and reassigned it to Vadim for consideration.

	brian.