On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:46:46 +0200 Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 17/06/08 at 22:10 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> On Tuesday 17 June 2008 21:11, Nicolas Valcarcel wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> > > There's a wiki page on >> > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PatchTaggingGuidelines about >> > > basically the same thing (it documents the changes in the patches, which >> > > is not suitable if the changes are made directly in the source, without >> > > using a patch system), but that policy doesn't seem to be in widespread >> > > use, unfortunately. >> > >> > I didn't knew about that page and i'm sure a lot of people doesn't know >> > also, are you interested on helping me dive into wiki pages to write a >> > complete document with all of them and then try to spread the word about >> > it/them? Did someone want to help? >> >> We have https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributingToDebian that would presumably be >> the right place to start. > >I disagree: the change I'm suggesting is not about "being nice to >Debian". If you improve the documentation of your changes, you will >help yourself (Ubuntu) first. Almost two years ago, I proposed to switch >from a simple "Merged with Debian" entry in changelog, to listing the >various changes in the top changelog entry[0]. I think this was a >success, and this only pushes things further.
I agree that was a success and a very good change for Ubuntu. As an Ubuntu developer (that's generally familiar with where to find bugs in Launchpad and BTS), I don't see a lot of benefit within Ubuntu for this last lot of suggestions. Getting more stuff from Ubuntu back into Debian does benefit Ubuntu, but I don't think better debian/changelogs in Ubuntu will help much.. In my experience, reactions to the diff available on PTS are rare. If I want something feed back to Debian, I almost invariably have to put a bug in BTS with the patch. I can explain the rationale there. Scott K -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
