Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:49:24 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: If you want me to quit I will quit |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Often it takes quite a long time for problems to become apparent. Across a > month or two we end up with things like: [...] > that's two patches, each with three followon fixes. Very common. > > Fact is, this is the way in which developers want to work. That is their > workflow, and their tools should follow their workflow. If a tool's > behaviour prevents them from implementing their desired workflow, it isn't > the workflow which should be changed ;)
Well, some of the questions here, notably - when to fold patch + amendment patch into a single patch - when to publish things to whom are actually about the workflow, not about the tool.
(And it's good to learn of other people's expectations about it.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-- ==-=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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