On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Attila Lendvai attila.lendvai@gmail.com wrote: the issue you're trying to address by providing more convenient patches is unfortunately not an engineering or convenience issue, but is rather social in nature.
Well, I myself maintain a fairly popular open source repo and go months without replying to perfectly usable pull requests. It's just a question of time (and conservatorism you're right, since I also get lots of unusable, if creative, contributions ).
But I do value neat, ready-to-commit contributions. Tests and peer backings help, too. These I normally merge without even testing them myself (github makes it easy). So "neater" contributions are not only more convenient, they offer more security to a maintainer that it isn't just a one-off hack to scratch some itch.
so, it's just some 0.02,
Throw in another 0.02 and try out the patches. Report back here if they're good to go.
João
PS: interesting point about the surprising slowness of SLIME. Interesting indeed, but lets spend more time fixing and improving it than evaluating the interest of such discussions :-)