How about we the how to contribute page with a simple standard? jira-xyz.patch # for trunk jira-xyz-branch.patch # for a release branch, could use a shortened name, eg "20x" for branch-20-security and "append" for branch-20-append.
Thanks, Eli On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Robert Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Can I ask, though that we do add branch information in the patches. Too > often a patch is intended to apply to some branch other then trunk, and there > is no easy way to tell what branch it was intended for. > > --Bobby Evans > > > On 9/9/11 10:52 AM, "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" > <chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > > Wow, I didn't know that! > > Learn something new everyday, thanks guys. > > Cheers, > Chris > > On Sep 9, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Doug Cutting wrote: > >> On 09/09/2011 07:27 AM, Ted Dunning wrote: >>> If you post the same patch with the same name, JIRA helps you out by greying >>> all the earlier versions out. >> >> Indeed. That's the best practice, not to add version numbers to patch >> files, for this very reason. We should perhaps note this on: >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute >> >> I am a Jira administrator and would be happy to change the default >> ordering of attachments if it were possible, however I can see no option >> to do so. >> >> Doug > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. > Senior Computer Scientist > NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA > Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 > Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov > WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > >
