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Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion"
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Karl Fogel |
Subject: |
Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion" |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 14:22:30 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
>Karl Fogel <address@hidden> writes:
>>>But the lost patch situation in Emacs is a genuine problem, and one that
>>>I think may be disencouraging new contributors. Here's what I think
>>>should happen:
>>>
>>>1) Whenever somebody posts a patch to emacs-devel, and you don't feel
>>>like applying it at once, tell them "send this via `M-x
>>>report-emacs-bug', otherwise it'll never be applied".
>>>
>>>2) People interested in herding patches should start using debbugs-gnu.
>>>I've now added another command to make this easier -- just say `M-x
>>>debbugs-gnu-patches', and you'll get a nice list of all the bug reports
>>>that contain patches. (Or at least the ones that have been marked as
>>>such, but that's pretty much all of them...)
>>
>> These two ideas would add burden to the patch submitter, I think,
>> unlike John's proposal.
>
>The first one is an added burden to the submitter, but the second one
>isn't something the submitter has to deal with at all -- it's for the
>cat herders. I mean, patch managers...
Ah, good point, agreed.
- Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion", (continued)
Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion", Nicolas Petton, 2016/04/25
Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion", Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2016/04/25
Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion", Dmitry Gutov, 2016/04/25
Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion", Dmitry Gutov, 2016/04/25
Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion", John Wiegley, 2016/04/25
Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion", Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2016/04/25
Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion", Andreas Röhler, 2016/04/26