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Re: Patch policy
On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 14:30, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> >
> > I'd suggest not using bugzilla actually. I've already been thinking
> > about this problem and there are well established patch managers out
> > there. In particular I'm thinking of what is on savannah.gnu.org, e.g.:
> > http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?group=inetutils
>
> I was talking to Alex, and he has persuaded me now that bugzilla is a good
> solution after all! The problems I had with it were primarily due to there
> not being a good mapping between bug states and patch states.
>
> But it turns out that the Bugzilla folks have now thought of that. The
> primary way to sort this out is using flags, like:
>
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/flag-help.html
>
> With flags, the mozilla folks sensibly use bugzilla for patch review.
>
> Alex also pointed out that with Bugzilla, it means that all patches are in
> one place - both patches that we say close bugs, and new patches. This
> means people looking for patches only need to search one place.
>
> The only thing is that we can't just add flags to bugzilla.redhat.com...
> so I suggest we go ahead and make a decision about moving to
> http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/
>
> Does it look okay by everyone? If so, we can shut down the old bugzilla,
> move all the existing bugs over, and update the web pages to point to
> bugs.ecos.sourceware.org.
>
I'm OK with this. BTW, can we actuall use the eCos logo that's on the
page?
> Then once we're running with that and happy that it works, we can start
> looking at what's needed to get patches in there, primarily involving
> documenting patch submission procedure.
>
> One thing I'd still want cleared up is how we keep track of what's
> actually being checked in, i.e. when a patch would transition between
> "approved" and "committed" states. I don't know if Alex has any ideas on that.
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Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates