On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 01:45:14PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi, > > it might be beneficial to have a regular procedure how users can contribute > updates to the nix-pkgs tree. The following alternatives come to my mind: > > (1) Just e-mail the patch or the nix file to this mailing list and trust > that someone commits it. This is what we're doing implicitly right now. > > (2) Post the patch or the nix file to the bug tracker. This triggers a > notification, which (hopefully) leads to the bug being assigned to some > volunteer to handle the contribution. It's all very ISO-9001'ish, but > the process seems to work for Gentoo. > > (3) Post the patch to a wiki. This is how the Emacs people collect elisp > files, and it seems to work fine.
(4) ask niksnut for an svn account. Maybe we could start a policy to add [patch] within the subject line. Then everyone who is not interested can delete them instantly? We don't have that high traffic yet so I don't think we have to care about it. I think just sending to the mailinglist is fine for now. A lot of other big projects (git, kernel) do this and patches are modified until everyone is satisfied. I think this is a good habit. If we start having a "commit procedure" we should install a wiki as well. Sincerly Marc _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
