Re: Mis-handled ColdFire submission?

[Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> I just wanted to guage the general feeling as to whether I'd  
> screwed up, and whether I should have submitted the patches in a  
> different way.

I don't see a trivial way that is strictly better.  The problem is  
that some folks don't want the huge patch and some folks don't like  
the spray of 60.  Hard to please both at once.  One strategy that  
might be better would be to do them up on a development branch and  
submit one patch at a time as you develop them and then when all is  
said and done and all reviewed and approved, just merge it in.

I'm used to this style from the Ada folks, and I've managed to find  
the 1 or 2 patches I was interested in taking a closer look at, so I  
don't think the spray of 60 is all that unreasonable.  I do think  
trying to avoid patch spray is a noble goal...  though, I do think it  
is easier to review as 60 as opposed to 1 compressed tar file.

I too look forward to what others might say on the matter, as I'm  
going to be contributing lots of Objective-C patches at some point in  
the near feature I hope.  I'll probably just do it as a few, larger  
combo patches (1-5) to ease the pain of it all for me.  :-(  People  
can take this opportunity to complain in advance if they wish.