> > Can we do the Grumpy Old Man run-down? We still need somebody to act as > GoM for this feature, somebody who can call up enough stubbornness to make > sure we are sincere about giving these questions due consideration:
To get this started, here are the short answers to these questions > > 1. What problem does the proposed feature solve? Retrieving and keeping together a set of remote patches without having to apply them. > 2. What are the user stories? Reviewing the set of patches before applying them. Keeping them together in a file to apply them one-by-one, while concurrently recording the merge resolution patches if there needs to be some. Fetching the patches and keeping them in an archive for later application/reference if application does not make sense yet. Anything we do with send, except the initiative belongs to the receiver rather than the sender. > 3. Does this change any pre-existing workflows? Does this introduce any > incompatibilities? No. All it ever does is to create bundle files where yoeu tell it to. > 4. Does this interfere with the conceptual integrity of Darcs? Is the UI > really Darcs-ish? I think the consensus is yes. > 5. What are the possible unintended interactions with other pre- existing > features? See question 3, i don't think there are any. > 6. What are the alternative approaches to solving the same problem? Why > do we prefer this one? Other ways to do the same thing involve either relying on the patch cache, which is not darcsish and has interference with the possibility to clean it, or they use temporary repositories, which are heavyweight (if only because you need one working dir for each). > 7. Who are the stakeholders? Who is going to benefit/be affected by this > feature: end-users, repo farms like patch-tag, darcs developers? > End-users would benefit from this. > The idea is that the new feature doesn't go in till the Grumpy Old Man is > placated. Anybody want to volunteer? > May I ? ;-) Florent _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
