Hi Ken, Here's my take on the below:
> > 1. How long should a patch typically bake before being committed? > Depends on the project usually. Some, which have been around for a while, seem to have stricter policies on this than others. Over here in Tika ville, if you feel it's something controversial, 1-2 days should give everyone enough time to check out the patch (unless it's over the holidays in which you should leave a little bit more lag-time, maybe a week). In general though, if it's not controversial and just adds functionality, without changing core interfaces, etc., I think you are OK to move forward a bit faster, so long as you follow the process (JIRA issue + comments + unit tests [if they make sense], and update to CHANGES.txt on anything non-trivial). > This came up because I thought about filing an issue + patch, and then > trying to commit it for the 0.6 release, but that wouldn't give any > time for review. There's time I think -- I plan on trying to cut the first RC sometime next week. So if you can get to it before then and throw up a patch in the next day or so, you should be OK. > 2. How do you handle svn + git? I don't :) I'm an SVN guy, so I don't have much of an opinion on git. > > E.g. do you always generate your patches in git, and then roll patches > into SVN using Eclipse? > I think this varies depending on the editor of preference. I typically use Eclipse + Subclipse, so I just generate patches from Eclipse. Others use vi/emacs + SVN or vi/emacs + git. I think the requirement is that your patch should apply with little or (preferably) no warnings to a clean checkout of the trunk using the UNIX patch tool. HTH, and, welcome again! Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
