Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:53:01 +0600 | From | Anuradha Ratnaweera <> | Subject | Re: Release Policy |
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:40:30PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > > > > How does Marcelo (or Linus or Alan, say) know that the patch _really_ came from > > the subsystem aintainer himself? I mean anybody would have sent any crap, but > > not too bad enough to suspect. But if it came with a CC to a list, there is a > > much smaller chance of this happenning. > > > > Yes. This would be very rare and the effects would be very short lived. But > > still the _possibility_ exists. > > How about sending a quick reply "got your patch, applied it?" The > maintainer can then say "WHAT PATCH?"
Don't we need a consistent indexing system for patches?
May be the subsystem maintainers can upload patches to some place over ssh/ssl and the maintainer can _download_ them from there. The maintainer will simply email the patch number and not the whole thing. And patches can be numbered/named in some consistent manner. Once the system is in place, we can even automate md5 checksums etc.
Cheers,
Anuradha
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