Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
2009/2/6 Maarten Maathuis: If you were really seeing a duplicate of a git commit list, then you would see a whole different picture. For you patches may just be noise, but that's not the case for everyone. So ok then, what is the purpose of posting thousands of patches to xorg list? Cheers,

Re: Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread Tomas Carnecky
On 02/06/2009 01:21 PM, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: 2009/2/6 Maarten Maathuis: If you were really seeing a duplicate of a git commit list, then you would see a whole different picture. For you patches may just be noise, but that's not the case for everyone. So ok then, what is the purpose of

Re: Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread Maarten Maathuis
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: 2009/2/6 Maarten Maathuis: If you were really seeing a duplicate of a git commit list, then you would see a whole different picture. For you patches may just be noise, but that's not the case for everyone. So ok

Re: Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
2009/2/6 Maarten Maathuis: It gives people time to check, review and/or complain about patches. Now that the xorg-devel list was made, it will obviously move there. I certainly check patches that catch my eye (a small fraction of the total, i admit). Does one not submit patches to the

Re: Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread Maarten Maathuis
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: 2009/2/6 Maarten Maathuis: It gives people time to check, review and/or complain about patches. Now that the xorg-devel list was made, it will obviously move there. I certainly check patches that catch my eye (a

Re: Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Igor Mozolevsky wrote: 2009/2/6 Maarten Maathuis: It gives people time to check, review and/or complain about patches. Now that the xorg-devel list was made, it will obviously move there. I certainly check patches that catch my eye (a small fraction of the total, i admit). Does one not

Re: Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread William Tracy
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: Does one not submit patches to the maintainer for the sub-project anymore?.. That creates a single point of failure--you are now relying on that person and that person only to get your patch in. That also does not give

Re: Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread Igor Mozolevsky
2009/2/6 William Tracy: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: Does one not submit patches to the maintainer for the sub-project anymore?.. That creates a single point of failure--you are now relying on that person and that person only to get your patch

Re: Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: 2009/2/6 William Tracy: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Igor Mozolevsky i...@hybrid-lab.co.uk wrote: Does one not submit patches to the maintainer for the sub-project anymore?.. That creates a single point of

Re: Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 08:35:02PM +, Igor Mozolevsky wrote: 2009/2/6 William Tracy: That creates a single point of failure--you are now relying on that person and that person only to get your patch in. That also does not give any third parties who might be impacted by your patch a

Re: Patch noise [Was: GIT Noise]

2009-02-06 Thread Pat Kane
DS: You appear to have a strange view of what constitutes signal and noise. I agree. The patch msgs are signal-ish the rest is noise-ish. [1] Pat --- [1] unless I am posting a dumb question ___ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org