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Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion"
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Seeking a "Patch Champion" |
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Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:14:05 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
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...
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- 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