On 7/12/2010 3:33 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 07/12/2010 01:46 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> On 7/12/2010 1:14 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: >> >>> >>> This page is the best I have found so far for regular developers: >>> >>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs >>> >>> It gives the information that is needed for a developer, someone who >>> contributes code. >>> >>> It is not particularly launchpad.net centric, and I am thinking about >>> reworking it to match our situation. Do people think this would be helpful? >>> >> I think it would be very useful. I particularly liked the section on >> creating >> a two way mirror. > > > That might not be as magic as it seems. Could be a consequence of the > way they checked out the branch. I'd dig deeper into that.
I believe you're correct about this. Using bzr checkout would have likely preserved the link back to the main launchpad branch. > > >> I learned something new. The Bazaar documentation has >> decent tutorial about launchpad integration at: >> >> http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.2.1/en/tutorials/using_bazaar_with_launchpad.html >> >> >>> If so, where would it best go? As a FAQ, or somewhere else but put an >>> originating link in a FAQ? >>> >> A FAQ on the Kicad Developers page seems like the logical choice. A link in >> the Kicad FAQ may be useful for folks considering becoming a developer. >> > > > The HTML formatting in the launchpad FAQs is really weak, no wiki like > formatting, but I don't know wiki source formatting anyway. My > preference is to do it in HTML and have somebody find a place for it, > maybe even in the source tree project docs is an option. I will still > very much welcome an additional idea that might knock that one off the > top of the list (put it into project source tree), it might be safer > somewhere else, more immune to change. > > > What I also learned today is that with OpenPGP signed email we can send > an attachment that is a bzr "merge request" (aka bzr bundle, fancy patch) to > > > [email protected] > > > at which point they show up in a code review manager. I like this and > want to be able to get there. I don't know if everyone needs to do > this, or whether a volunteer can take merge requests (or even plain old > patches) from the list and remail them to the above address. > > If the instructions were good enough, I would lean towards the former, > having everyone mail to [email protected]. By everyone do you mean developers both with and without commit access to the launchpad main line repo or only developers without commit access? > > I am not excited about asking folks to fire up OpenPGP capability in > order to send an email however, that is a high bar for something so > simple. An alternative path to the same goal is to have a personalized > branch publicly accessible, and then use the merge request webform at > the launchpad.net site, wherein the merge request is generated by the > website by accessing the two branches, yours and the testing branch. Either way works for me. I don't know that publishing a public branch versus creating a PGP key is any more or less painful. I would think that someone experienced enough to use Bazaar to push a personal branch to launchpad would be comfortable using a PGP key to sign an email. > > For project scalability reasons, I think the code review manager is > going to be important moving forward. It puts patches on display before > they are committed, and pushes back onto the original poster the work of > cleaning things up. > >>From another project, for example: > > https://code.launchpad.net/gwibber/+activereviews > > I am merely trying to anticipate future needs a little here (based on > future project scaling requirements), and fully utilize the things that > launchpad is able to do for us. > > My write up will also try and clarify the "bzr send" support for us a > little. Thanks for taking the lead on this. Wayne > > > Dick > > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
