[Patches] Patch to import.c

[Tim Peters]

[Jack Jansen]
> I'm a bit confused as to the current procedure for patches.

It's broken.

> It used to be that Guido said "yes" or "no", and that was it.

And that's the way he left it, too.  But among leaving CNRI, negotiating
with BeOpen, and getting married, he's been about the most overloaded person
on earth the past few months.  Things will get better when he returns from
his honeymoon.  In the meantime, I'm often going to be too busy moving to
Virginia to channel him, so I'm afraid we're all going to have to act like
grownups <wink>.

For starters, we should presume that your Mac patches (& Trent's Win64
patches, and all other patches only the originator is likely to be able to
test) do what they claim to do on their platform, and review them mostly for
possible unintended breakage on real <wink> platforms.

> ...
> As I didn't follow discussions on the new patch system: is there a
> procedure

Not really.  The "votes" are purely advisory, and Guido still says "yes" or
"no".  In his absence we should make progress anyway and apologize later.

> ...
> And if there isn't one: could one be designed and documented, please?

Jeez, Jack, you're just implacable today <wink>.