I believe that I have compiled all of the notes from this thread into the wiki: http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/How_to_submit_a_patch_for_dummies
Please review and give feedback. AJ ONeal On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:43 AM, AJ ONeal <[email protected]> wrote: > Please give me feedback and I'll post this on the wiki. > > A task-oriented guide to creating a patch: > > > >> Let's say you create a new recipe and you'd like to submit it for >> inclusion (and you've already tested that it works, of course). >> >> 1. Now commit with a good strong helpful message >> >> git add recipes/nodejs/ >> git commit # don't use the -m option >> >> 2. The message should look like this >> >> added recipe for node.js >> >> * added recipe for node.js (bug #5555 - no nodejs recipe) >> ** patched libev's wscript to not try to execute code >> ** patched node's wscript to not search in '/usr/include' >> >> Signed-off-by: AJ ONeal <[email protected]> >> >> 3. Create your patch >> >> git format-patch -1 # or however many commits are part of this change >> >> 3++. If you are submitting a second version also add "--subject-prefix >> [v2]" >> >> git send-email >> >> Your patch will be immediately visible on >> http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/ >> > > >> 4. Once your patch has been accepted or rejected, create an account and >> update the status to "accepted" or "rejected" >> >> 4++. If you get soft-rejected (a lot of feedback), make the changes, >> submit the next version, and update the status of the previous patch to >> "superseded" >> >> Appendix: Properly configuring git (using [email protected] as an example >> user) >> >> sudo apt-get install git-core git-email >> git config --global user.name "Tekkub" >> git config --global user.email "[email protected]" >> git config --global sendemail.smtpserver smtp.gmail.com >> git config --global sendemail.smtpserverport 587 >> git config --global sendemail.smtpencryption tls >> git config --global sendemail.smtpuser [email protected] >> > > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
