Re: Starting to track patches through bugzilla

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> After discussing it on IRC (the words "This is trivial" were uttered,
> the gauntlet laid down, and the challenge taken up), i'm starting to
> work on tracking patches +followup discussion through bugzilla, so that
> they don't get lost, and so we can associate bugs as being blocked on
> the patches that fix them (and whatnot).

I think it would be preferrable to have such a patch tracker (that
tracks every single patch) separate from the bug-tracking system.

Also, I'm afraid we'll change from one extreme (no patch tracking)
to the other (over-zealous patch tracking).

A middle-ground I'd prefer is having patches explicitly submitted
by contributors, perhaps after they haven't been reviewed upon first
submission to the list.  I think this will be much more manageable
for us in the long or even mid term.

Gerald

> Note that people with mailers that don't set references/in-reply-to
> properly, of course, won't get pasted into the bug as a followup.
> This of course, only affects a few well-known people using EVIL
> MAILERS(TM), and this feature should be considered part of the ongoing
> worldwide conspiracy to get them to move to a reasonable mailer.

Good luck! :-)
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Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)   gerald@pfeifer.com   http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/