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danr:
Hi,

A while back I developed a plugin for Rockbox called Shopper, which allows you to create a re-usable shopping list.  I find it handy to walk around the kitchen with my media player and tick off what's needed each week.

I submitted a patch back in November but it seems like nobody has taken a look at it so far.  What's the general procedure for getting a patch like this added to Rockbox?

The patch was created against the version at the time, I think that was version 3.4, but it's straightforward to view the contents of the patch and manually edit the three or so files which are affected.  I tried this using the latest source from a few days ago.

If you want to take a look, you can find my patch here:http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/10820

Regards,
Dan

funman:
The best method I know is go on the irc channel and get a developer interested so he can look at it and commit it.

danr:
Thanks, I've asked on irc so we'll see if anything happens.

BTW kudos to you funman for all your work on the Sansa ports.

AlexP:
We are aware that we have a bit of an issue with patch rot - best way is just to keep bugging us on IRC :)

First comment: a manual patch to go along with the plugin would be very welcome. 

I haven't looked at the patch, but if they aren't already there, keymaps for other targets are a good thing - for something this simple I'd imagine that the plugin lib actions are ideal.  Also, make sure you are following http://svn.rockbox.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/docs/CONTRIBUTING?view=markup for the best chance of someone doing something :)

danr:
I still haven't heard anything so I think I will have to go on IRC again  :(.  All a bit frustrating really.

I don't mind making changes to the patch as necessary, but I don't think there's much point unless someone says there's a chance they'll apply the patch once I've done it  ;).

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