Hi Steffen!

Here we are, finally, with comments on your patches.  I splitted the
thread for each single patch, which is something easier to manage.

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:47:31 +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>>From b1e4d1b2f0b48a3d9f89d9100e53345a5a328985 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Steffen Moeller <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:23:42 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Helping the world that blindly follows instructions on
>  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner
>  with explicit instructions on how to feed back changes.

Please let me better explain how at least I prefer patches.  Some of the
information below should be included in your patch, some others are more
general ones and thus they do not belong to install.sh.


1) the patch name should be less than 65 characters and be
   self-contained, i.e. it should not span multiple lines.  I cannot
   find the official Git reference here, but you can read more at

     http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/CommitMessageConventions


2) I always prefer to give an idea of which file has changed in the
   patch name, e.g. how I rephrased the title of this mail.  Strictly
   speaking, I know this is my preference, so no one is obliged to
   follow it ;-)


3) each patch should have his own mail/thread, because it is easier to
   spot problems when you deal with single commits.

   When you have a bundle of patches, you can easily and automatically
   send them with git-send-email (package git-email in Debian), as
   explained at

     http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html


4) patches should always be sent to the pkg-fso-maint mailing list,
   never to the single authors


Given the above, can you reformat your patch, please?  Or, IMHO better,
another option would be to put all these information into the developer
page on the Debian wiki, thus

  http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianFSO

The install.sh file already contains a line that point to the user page
on the Debian wiki

  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner

The main advantage instead of hardcoding everything into the install.sh
file is that everyone can modify/improve the instructions.  In any case,
you need a working connection if you want to hack on the Git repository.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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