Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb: > Ah, so you want us to use your git repos as patch managers? That > clears up a few things. I dont want you to use *my* repos. But I'd like to advocate git-based workflows (eg. downstream branches w/ rebase, etc) instead of loose patches. And I'm offering you an prov

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-12 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb: >> > Thats not even necessary. They just should use the infrastructure, >> > as described in my paper. So everyone can easily set up automatic >> > notifications, cherry-pick, etc, etc. >> >> Why should we? > > T

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto schrieb: > just because you decided to "offer" some service, it in no way "forces > us" to accept it. No, it does not. I never claimed that. And so really I dont understand that fundamentalistic kind of argumentation (which is really near to ranting). > With your p

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb: > > Thats not even necessary. They just should use the infrastructure, > > as described in my paper. So everyone can easily set up automatic > > notifications, cherry-pick, etc, etc. > > Why should we? To make tracking and applying other's changes much easier. Curre

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nirbheek, thanks for writing such a well thought-out and comprehensive reply to Enrico. I agree with all the points you raised. On 11-07-2010 10:28, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> * Nirbheek Chauh

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb: >> I don't see how these various distros can be made to agree with >> each other and I certainly can't see them using a common tarball >> source. > > Thats not even necessary. They just should use the infrastruct

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb: > If I understand your system correctly, you essentially maintain clones > of upstream repos, with all the various distro patches applied on top, > and release tarballs as well. Yes. And if some upstream does not provide suitable vcs access (or doesnt even have one),

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > The point is: I have to maintain lots of packages for different distros, > as well as for my own build system. I cannot do this manually for each > single distro, so I prefer doing _generic_ fixes and let the distro > buildfiles only do the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Hans de Graaff schrieb: > I do understand the response, because part of the strategy mentioned > *is* not to provide plain-text patches, but instead manage them, > possibly jointly with other distributions, in a midstream repository. Exactly. The point is: I have to maintain lots of packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-11 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 01:28 -0400, Jacob Godserv wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:13, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > I've already explained the strategy behind the git repo (and not > > doing plaintext patches). Please refer to my paper, and my other > > mails posted recently on this list. > > I'm

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-10 Thread Jacob Godserv
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:13, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I've already explained the strategy behind the git repo (and not > doing plaintext patches). Please refer to my paper, and my other > mails posted recently on this list. I'm not quite sure I understand your response here. He didn't ask for yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Samuli Suominen schrieb: > On 07/08/2010 01:56 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. > > > > It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates > > missing maildir directories. > > Provide your patches as plain/te

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Robin H. Johnson schrieb: Hi, > > It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates > > missing maildir directories. > Stock procmail does this already. > > From procmailrc: > If the mailbox is specified to be an MH folder or maildir folder, > procmail will create the necessar

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-07 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 12:56:52AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. > > It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates > missing maildir directories. Stock procmail does this already. >From procmailrc: If the mailbox is specified to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-07 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 07/08/2010 01:56 AM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. > > It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates > missing maildir directories. Provide your patches as plain/text attachments like everyone else does, can't expe

[gentoo-dev] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, YFYI: yet another of my ebuilds kicked-down. It's an improved version of procmail, which automatically creates missing maildir directories. cu - Forwarded message from bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org - From: bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org Subject: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail