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List:       mutt-dev
Subject:    Re: The future of mutt... - intermediate aggregation
From:       Will Fiveash <will.fiveash () oracle ! com>
Date:       2013-10-22 14:48:59
Message-ID: 20131022144858.GA9859 () oracle ! com
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 03:40:12PM +0200, jpacner@redhat.com wrote:
> 
> Let me propose a fairly minor change in the development process. First,
> introduce a special branch in mercurial for a "user-developed" version
> of mutt. Commit rights for this branch would be given immediately
> (without any patch reviews etc.) to anyone who requests them on the dev
> mailing list and has created

While I'd like to see a more inclusive patch process (I have created
several over the years that I'd like to see included in mutt) I think,
as others have mentioned before, that a comprehensive regression test
needs to be created and included in the mutt source tree with a make
target to run it.  Anyone submitting a patch would be required to
successfully run that test collection.  

And beyond that I think there needs to be a automated C-style checker to
enforce consistent C code formatting.  The checker could be run via a
gate push hook.

These things would go a long way to keeping mutt's code quality high
while allowing more people to contribute.

-- 
Will Fiveash
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