Hi! After the (first) patchset I've submitted on this list for openwengo I was looking around for some guidelines on how to submit patches correctly.
I was not able to find any information about submitting patches neither in the openwengo-wiki nor in the archives of the mailling-list. Did I miss something? If found some guides from other projects: [1] http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Email_Clients_and_Patches [2] http://winmerge.org/Wiki/Submit_Patch [3] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/submit.html [4] http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Misc/perl-5.6.1/Porting/patching.html In fact they can be summed up by these questions: - How to create the patch? - What should be the filename of the patch? - How is the patch submitted? The first question should be easy to answer: - Use "svn diff" or create a patch with TortoiseSVN (or even use "diff -u") The second question is not that easy. My suggestion (if anybody cares): - {OrigFilename}_r{svnrevision}_{patchName}-{patchVersion}.diff|patch The third question is also not as easy as it seems: As Attachment? * gzipped? * zipped? * text? Inline? What should be the subject? [PATCH] - {OrigFilename}_r{svnrevision}_{patchName}-{patchVersion} I also like the idea of [3] of adding a patch header on each patch, but I may be wrong. What do you maintainer and longtime contributors think? Is that too much overkill or would you like to stick to some guidelines? I would love to hear your opinions. Thank you! Greetings, - Darsha _______________________________________________ Wengophone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://dev.openwengo.com/mailman/listinfo/wengophone-devel
