On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:03 AM, bugs buggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> About these guidelines, take this:
>
> " Patches as a rule go into the patch tracker. Give a quick run down of what
> it does and what it changes."
>
> Does it matter which tracker?

No. But if the tracker doesn't email the list, please do so manually.

> " Patches that only fix bugs (no rewrites which fix bugs...) or build errors
> can go in at once."
>
> What do you mean by that?  Most of the time you have to rewrite some stuff
> to fix the bug, unless you mean really simple errors that involve less than
> a few lines?

If the fix is a few lines, fine. If you have to rewrite a lot of code
(ie has a high chance of introducing new bugs), then post the patch
for review first.

> What about other patches that aren't really code changes per se, they just
> change comments and or add things to debug statements?

Just commit them. Perhaps should add to the commit guidelines that
documentation updates can go in without review.

> And then we got patches in the tracker that are many months old.
> Since it has been longer than 48 hours, those are ok to integrate?

Use common sense. :-) Some of these patches are many months for a reason.

> And finally, you should also add a 'modify the changelog when patch is
> integrated' rule.  Unless we go with just svn log dumps of what was done?
> Also, more descriptive comments in the svn log while committing would also
> be a good rule.

I agree.

  - Per

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