-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Adrian Bye wrote:
> Hi guys (and RMS, copied), > > About 3 years ago I made this post: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman > -developers/2005-February/017850.html > > As a result, I get an email every 1-2 months from people asking for an > updated patch. It looks to me like there are really two separate unrelated features here. Distributing them in the same patch would make it difficult to review, discuss, test and integrate, regardless of whether they are good ideas or not. I would like to encourage you to develop your patches in a different way. I'm not making any promises about whether they would be integrated if you do this, but it would make it easier for us to look at, and I believe easier for your to maintain separately if you decide to continue to do so. I would highly recommend creating two separate Bazaar branches of the Mailman 2.1 code. Each would implement just one of your features. You could create a third branch with the whole thing if you wanted, but I don't think it would be necessary. You should then register on Launchpad and push these branches, publishing them in a live source code repository for all to see. I'm really trying to encourage this style of development. To me, patches living in a tracker is dead code. With a published, public branch, the entire process is more transparent, we can easily do a merge and test if we wanted to look at it. We can even find these branches easily via Launchpad. And you will have an easier time maintaining them, because as new revisions get pushed to Mailman 2.1 trunk, you can just merge, commit, and push to update your own branch. If you -- or anybody else -- has questions about this workflow, please ping me on #mailman on irc.freenode.net. I will happily walk you through it. Cheers, - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHqvot2YZpQepbvXERAqmsAJ9H2Y9EBEIw03mDt/NPUHsL7EcYlACggzB3 pcP+bzgjF1D1dIv89m8VLCY= =BC8W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
