Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:44:34 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> I'll continue asking stupid questions, then. Like, under this system how > can either you or the port maintainers maintain a good representation of > how far out of sync they are with the main tree?
diff and read the output.
[bizzare sociopolitical mumble deleted]
> well, though. One is the kind I'm bumping into right now, where > somebody legitimately needs to make small (almost trivial) changes > scattered all through the tree.
Yep. But such changes are rare. Or should be.
> Another is the case where a piece of code that needs to be changed doesn't > have an active maintainer for a third party like me to go to. > What's the neighborly way to deal with these?
If I get patches for stuff that doesnt seem to have a maintainer I apply them. On the odd occasion a scream is heard in the distance it means I now know there is an active maintainer.
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