Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] docs: rSTify the "SubmitAPatch" wiki

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:08:52AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 10/11/2021 15.49, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:

[...]

> >      writing-qmp-commands
> >      trivial-patches
> >      submitting-a-pull-request
> > +   submitting-a-patch
> 
> I'd suggest to insert this before the pull-request entry, in case anybody
> reads the manual sequentially, it might be better to learn about the patch
> submission process first before reading about pull requests.

I did notice it when looking at the rendered output, and still missed to
fix it; bad me.

> (I can fix this up when picking up the patch, no need to resend)

Thank you.

[...]

> > +Split up longer patches into a patch series of logical code changes.
> > +Each change should compile and execute successfully. For instance, don't
> > +add a file to the makefile in patch one and then add the file itself in
> > +patch two. (This rule is here so that people can later use tools like
> > +```git bisect`` <http://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect>`__ without hitting
> 
> That hyperlink showed up in the rendered output. I'll fix it up by removing
> the "``" quotes.

Oops, good catch.

[...]

> > +QEMU follows the usual standard for git commit messages: the first line
> > +(which becomes the email subject line) is "subsystem: single line
> > +summary of change". Whether the "single line summary of change" starts
> > +with a capital is a matter of taste, but we prefer that the summary does
> > +not end in ".".
> 
> That ".". looks a little bit weird in the output ... maybe we should replace
> it with "does not end with a dot." ?

Re-looking the output, yes it does look odd.  And yes, your amendment
is good.

[...]

> > +The body of the commit message is a good place to document why your
> > +change is important. Don't include comments like "This is a suggestion
> > +for fixing this bug" (they can go below the "---" line in the email so
> 
> That --- gets translated into a — character ... I'll replace the "---" with
> ``---`` to fix it.

Ah, when I locally ran `rst2html5 submitting-a-patch.rst
submitting-a-patch.html` it retained the "---", but when I built QEMU
(`configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --enable-docs`), Sphinx does
turn it into an em-dash (—), and missed to notice it.

Thanks for the careful review and submitting the PR.  I'm assuming I
don't need to respin a v4.
 

-- 
/kashyap