Okay guys, I will try to keep those points in mind next time :)

Adrian.

On 27/10/2007, Andreas L Delmelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Oct 27, 2007, at 09:25, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Just would like to add a small one:
>
> > when applying patches from someone else I consider it important to
> > list
> > the contributor in a consistent way. From the CVS times, there's the
> > following pattern from a commit template:
> > Submitted by: Name <email>
> >
> > If everyone uses this template, it is possible to go through all
> > commit
> > messages and identify who contributed what to a software package.
> > There's also a legal aspect to that. So I ask you and everone on the
> > team to always use this pattern when applying patches.
>
> I also try to make it a policy to update status.xml with every patch
> or if the change is far from trivial. That way, when the website is
> re-published, the patch/change becomes visible to the outside world.
>
> Apart from that, I second what Jeremias already said:
>
> > Thanks (especially for going through unprocessed patches in the first
> > place),
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Andreas
>
>

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