On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Bruno Dilly <bdi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Youness Alaoui
> <kakar...@kakaroto.homelinux.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As most people in #e.fr know, for the past week, I've been porting the EFL
>> to the PS3, and during my work I've stumbled across a few bugs/issues with
>> the existing code that needed fixing (and which was unrelated to the PS3
>> port).
>
> I didn't know about it, really cool!  =)
>
>> I've made a git clone of the svn and I've pushed my changes to my git
>> remote.
>> Cedric asked me to send an email with the patches, I would prefer for the
>> patches to be reviewed on github since you can comment on individual lines
>> and commits making the review process much easier.
>> If you insist I can make them into patch files and send them over by mail,
>> but I'd rather not.
>> You can view my commits here :
>> https://github.com/kakaroto/e17/commits/to-review
>> After they are reviewed and if everyone is ok with the quality, i'd like to
>> request svn access so I can push the commits myself onto the svn server (I
>> wouldn't like seeing my patches committed under someone else's name to be
>> honest). Boris (billiob) can vouch for me, and I do understand the
>> responsabilities of having commit access (I've been project manager of aMSN
>> for about 10 years now), and I promise I wouldn't mess with anything. My
>> code is usually good quality and well tested before it gets pushed, and
>> also, of course, until I get used to the E team's coding style and
>> standards, I wouldn't commit anything that wouldn't have been previously
>> reviewed and authorized by one of the long-term E developers.
>> So please consider my request, if you'd like to see more patches from me
>> before giving me svn access, then I suppose it can wait since none of the
>> patches I sent are critical, but I'm ready to accept it if you'd like to
>> push the commits now under someone else's authorship.
>
> Usually, when we commit patches sent by somebody that don't have svn
> write access,
> we make it clear on commit messages and include the name of the
> developer to AUTHORS file, if the contribution
> is relevant.
>
> So we don't stole authorship, ok ?

There's even a script for this, svn-git-am.py, that ensures the credit
is given to whom it's due.


Lucas De Marchi

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