On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:18:02 +0000, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> >> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:49:59 +0000, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> Oh absolutely. But we should push the patches through this list before >>> they go off anywhere so we can all see what is going down. Likewise if >>> anyone is helping out on subtasks, the path to that branch is through >>> this list and yourself... although you can expect debate sometimes, >>> which is the point. >> >> So we agree we will be using mailine patch process. All patches should > be >> sent to this list >> before they can get integrated. >> >> Acked-by entries are also nice as we can validate at least one other > person >> has tested >> the patch. > > Yes I'm not interested in anything less transparent. And in terms of > tree access, the owner of the tree is the only one who pushes anything > there. If someone else wants to work off it, it is trivial to clone and > branch locally, then propose what you did on top back to the owner, or > keep your tree tracking the original or whatever. We don't need more > than one pair of hands on any branch and the consequent "surprises" for > sure.
Good :-) >> Also, I'd propose everyone to read: >> Documentation/SubmittingPatches >> Documentation/CodingStyle >> Documentation/SubmitChecklist > > We don't do too badly on it for patches these last months, but in fact > AFAIK nobody does checkpatch.pl and sparse here. That's something we > should take on and we'll be the better for now we plan to be serious > about upstream. But at the same time we work with U-Boot which spews > hundreds of compile warnings from all over even with pure upstream. As i said, I'm not really a fan of u-boot, it tries to do too much stuff on bootloader side :-s >> So we shrink down the effort on rework based on coding style issues and >> malformed patches. >> >> If anyone need a help with git, I've a few tips & tricks in my blog: >> http://felipebalbi.com/blog/?cat=8 >> >> I tried to make it as simple as possible :-) > > Wah your git-fu kicked my ass :-) haha, nice :-) I've being really studying git, I really like the tool. As a matter of fact, I use git from git :-p every week I recompile a newer version of git and almost every week I also rebuild my kernel :-p -- Best Regards, Felipe Balbi http://felipebalbi.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
