Re: [Chicken-hackers] pending patches

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:25:45AM +0100, Felix wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Too many patches are floating in limbo in the moment (and I'm aware of
> being unable to catch up, particularly in the case of the more involved
> patches which I really like to review before they go into "master").

There are no really involved ones left anymore, I think.

> A suggestion: if a patch remains pending for a longer period, it might
> be sensible to create a trac ticket, add the patch and assign the
> ticket to someone (when in doubt, assign it to me). Otherwise patches
> will get lost, or submitters will feel ignored.

What works great for me is using the "flag" feature of mutt.  When a
message comes in, it start out being "unread".  When I read it and see
it's a patch, I flag it.  Then when someone applies the patch, I
unflag it.  So everything that requires attention is either unread or
flagged.

That way I can easily see which patches are still outstanding.  These
are, in chronological order:

- [PATCH] fix special cases for vector/list-ref in scrutinizer when argument 
count is wrong
   (here there's a reply with a modified patch)
- [CR] deprecate "make" syntax in setup-api
   (you said you'd send a patch to the list for this one)
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] random returns the same number on x86_64 all 
the time
   (this is a reply to a patch mail which was applied, but the reply
    contains another patch)
- [PATCH] Raise error on construction of too large vectors/blobs
   (this is a long thread with multiple patches)
- [PATCH] Bugfix for #791 and unpack flonums correctly for integer?
- [PATCH] Allow assert to accept an arbitrary expression as the message
- [PATCH] Fix a few more mistakes in types.db

Cheers,
Peter
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