I'm on this.

Adam

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Luke Kanies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On May 23, 2008, at 7:42 AM, The Anarcat wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 06:38:12PM -0700, Brian Finney wrote:
>>>
>>> As a non active  (hopefully active in the future)
>>> contributer/developer, I would find emailed patches very useful for
>>> visibility into the code base and where things are going, and as a
>>> nice carrot hanging out in front of me to hopefully motivate me to
>>> contribute.  Of course the usability of actual contributers is more
>>> important.  Perhaps a merge mailing list that automatically gets
>>> emailed patches when merges happen on major branches if this doesn't
>>> go through? (github probably has something I could subscribe to
>>> though, I'll have to look into it)
>>
>> For me that's the best solution: having a -commits mailing list that
>> gets all the commits done on the master branches will ensure maximum
>> peer review of the actual master code, the one that matters.
>>
>> Branch maintainers still have the duty to actually review the topical
>> branches before they merge so I'm not sure it's relevant to share
>> those
>> "proposed patches" with everyone, unless we want to distribute the
>> task
>> of reviewing proposed patches to the master branches.
>>
>> In the case, the same process could be follow: hooks in topical
>> repositories would send mail to -commit@ on push.
>>
>> In general, it would be important to have tags in the commitmail
>> saying
>> what the patch applies to: a topical branch (and which(, a "stable"
>> master branch,
>> the "next release" master branch, etc.
>
> That's a good point -- another option is to just extend the -commits
> list so that everyone posts their commits to it, rather than just the
> commits sent to the master repo.
>
> Anyone want to set up a commit hook for github that would make this
> easy?
>
> --
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>     --Wilson Mizner
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> Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com
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>
> >
>



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