On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:56:55AM -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Lyude <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 23:40 -0700, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > > > Yeah Peter, I know how to apply a patch and no, I don't have any of > > > them in my inbox, that's why I've asked what was wrong in my > > > process ... right now I'm on Gmail in chrome and wayland-devel channel > > > and zero attachment whatsoever. > > > > If you're referring to e-mail attachments that's not what he's getting > > at. When you apply a patch off the mailing list you literally apply the > > e-mail itself, not an attachment. Hence why you'd use git-am instead of > > git-apply. git-am takes a saved copy of the e-mail (in mbox format), > > extracts the inline patch for you, and applies it to the tree. It's > > somewhat of a different process then just applying a plain old patches. > > > > It's a very different system then most projects nowadays use, since most > > projects will just do pull requests and that sort of stuff :). So seeing > > misunderstandings like this isn't at all unusual or something to be > > disheartened about. We're not the only project to do it though, you'll > > see that the linux kernel requires you to submit patches in this manner > > too. It's mostly done because with organized projects like this, having > > the ability to easily review a patch inline is necessary to discuss > > changes in the protocol, point out typos and errors in patches, etc. > > There are alternatives for this, for example Github has the ability to > > allow you to comment inline on commits in pull requests, but a lot of > > people here just prefer to use their e-mail clients and whatever text > > editor they fancy. > > > > It's a really outdated system, especially considering Pipermail doesn't > have an mbox link for download. My workaround is usually to hunt around for > the archive on markmail.org or marc.info and look for the mbox download, > but those don't seem to be tracking wayland-devel. > > So yeah, if you haven't subscribed to the list, hope you like copying and > pasting patch files and cleaning them up to get them to apply! > > (Why do we subject ourselves to this terrible infrastructure?)
setting up patchwork should be an option, that provides at least the raw patch format and it's already setup for a couple of other fdo projects. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
