From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-02-02T06:44:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.1 REXML performance

On Monday, February 2, 2004, 6:29:30 AM, Steven wrote:

>> Welcome to the
>> world of OpenSource Software (call it non active supported software),
>> write a personal email to the REXML author hope he respond, otherwise
>> fix it and hope he adds it to the code, otherwise publish your source
>> patch and hope more people use it then the original branch, otherwise repeat
>> the same thing every few month as long as you need this library.

> Thanks for the advice. I reported this problem Saturday morning US 
> Pacific time. It is now Sunday morning. In the intervening day others
> and I have (1) confirmed my observations, (2) carried on an off-list
> discussion of the problem, and (3) applied a patch developed by kapheine
> that completely solves the problem.

Well done.  I was just about to send a private note thanking you for
your diligence and good investigation and reporting.  Lothar's poor
public comment, however, has compelled me to make my comment public.

So thank you :)

Cheers,
Gavin