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List:       gentoo-alt
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-alt] Patch merging policy
From:       Lina Pezzella <J4rg0n () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2005-10-03 18:41:58
Message-ID: D742F314-74D4-4A45-A662-92B9528C0B62 () gentoo ! org
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> Hope you add osx@g.o as cc when you do so. It's quite more  
> difficult to find
> bugs this way.

Absolutely.

> I usually suggest just to move the status to ASSIGNED so that the  
> bug is in a
> "working on" status, but avoid changing the assignment so that it  
> still came
> up easily with the queries.

I think part of the point is that it doesn't come up in a generic  
"What's open and available on OSX" query. If someone is specifically  
looking for bugs on that package, it will still come up even though  
it's no longer ASSIGNED to ppc-macos. My reluctance to simply leave  
it as ASSIGNED, without changing the assignment is that it is unclear  
who is working on it. Having a person listed in the ASSIGNED field  
gives people interested in a package someone to contact.

>
> As soon as you have something that works, it would be great if it  
> goes in the
> overlay anyway, before inclusion, just to make sure that the  
> changes doesn't
> create problems with other g/alt projects.

Absolutely. Generally I include the patches in the portage tree for  
at least a few weeks before sending the patch upstream, just to make  
sure it doesn't break anything. Of course, before committing it to  
the tree, I have multiple people test it, including the package  
maintainer, to be sure it doesn't adversely affect other Gentoo users  
either. Needless to say, it hasn't been a problem for me *yet*. Since  
we are moving to the overlay, I will include subsequent patches in  
the overlay as well.

While this process is slow, it ensures QA, and I think that at this  
point, good QA is more important than swift progress.

- --Lina Pezzella
Gentoo Developer



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