Thilo Six wrote:
> Excerpt from Bram Moolenaar:
> -- <snip> --
> > Including patches for runtime files doesn't take much of my time, under
> > the condition that I can include them as-is. Most time goes into
> > reviewing the change and making sure it doesn't break anything. Or
> > omits another change that was submitted before.
> >
> > So, what we need is a few people who can review patches. And a
> > procedure that is easy to use for everybody. Especially for
> > maintainers, so that we make their life easier and get more volunteers
> > that know a specific language.
> >
> > It's possible to have a repository that has the "beta-test" version of
> > the runtime scripts. With a small group of committers. Ideally these
> > people also have some scripts to check for obvious problems, such as
> > using line continuation without setting 'cpo'.
> >
> > I can then pull files from that repository once tested and add them to
> > the release repository. The group of committers could send me a list of
> > files to pull weekly (or whenever something important was fixed). Does
> > that sound like a good solution?
>
> To me absolutely yes. Obviously we will need to discuss and decide some more
> details/workflows but i think the consensus is broad enough to start
> getting it productive.
> Are you fine with using vim-dev as our mailinglist for all runtime related
> questions?
Yes, I don't expect too much more discussion than what we already have.
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