Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:21:35 +0100 |
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On January 29, 2002 10:55 am, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Rob Landley wrote: > > > The holder of the patch penguin would feed Linus good patches, by Linus's > > standards. Not just tested ones, but small bite-sized patches, one per email > > as plain text includes, with an explanation of what each patch does at the > > top of the mail. (Just the way Linus likes them. :) Current pending patches > > from the patch penguin tree could even be kept at a public place (like > > kernel.org) so Linus could pull rather than push, and grab them when he has > > time. The patch penguin tree would make sure that when Linus is ready for a > > patch, the patch is ready for Linus. > > Looks like a manual re-implementation of a bug/request/patch tracker > like sourceforge's, bugzilla or whatever, with some additions.
And you load a patch into it by emailing to the bot, not via the web interface. The web interface is just for a) reporting b) maintainance, i.e., closing out a patch that got applied in some altered form, or applied with no notification to the bot, or obsoleted.
> A patch > is added to the system, it gets a version tag, and you just pull it, and > mark it closed if applied to Linus' tree. If Linus releases a new tree, > the patch is marked stale until the maintainer uploads an updated patch > or just reopens it to mark "still applies unchanged to new version". (No > CVS involved, BTW.)
Yes, very much yes. This way it just looks like regular email to Linus - except for some hopefully useful bookkeeping gack prepended to the top of the mail by the bot - and doesn't change the way he works at all.
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