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Re: Maintainers list
- To: pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at
- Subject: Re: Maintainers list
- From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:54:36 +0200
- CC: Theodore dot Papadopoulo at sophia dot inria dot fr, dj at delorie dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006091113460.21683-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
> The FreeBSD project uses GNATS to maintain such patches.
>
> See
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18648
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18564
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18877
> for examples.
Seems like a good idea. From a technical point of view, it would not
be difficult to add a patches category, or to declare the
change-request category as the one keeping track of, well, change
requests.
Of course, before that is set up, maintainers should indicate whether
they'd prefer such a procedure to the current one. It requires
additional maintainance steps (e.g. to close a PR after the patch was
installed), which is currently done informally by the maintainer
responding with a "Done" message.
On the plus side, it is easy to tell what the pending patches are, and
maintainers don't have to organize that in their mail folders,
instead, they can trust that GNATS keeps track.
Regards,
Martin