Re: [PATCH] submitting patches

[Bruno Haible]

Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
> > So, IMHO, this patch in an improvement to the documentation.
> 
> Your patch included lots of grammatical errors and touched lots of
> places where gender-specific pronouns were not used. If you think this
> kind of change is important to you, you must be the one using extra time
> to come up with high quality patches.

While it is true that the submitter, in the end, must invest the time
to provide a high quality patch if they want it to be accepted, they don't
need to do this investment before the first submission.

It is perfectly OK to write a first mail with a very unpolished patch
(or even just a bare informal proposal), to see whether it has chances
of being accepted upstream.

Bruno