Re: Commit/patch policy for bug-findutils

2007-06-23 Thread James Youngman
On 6/22/07, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would the members of the list prefer to see the patches? Would you comment on them? If the answer is yes, we should probably post matches to the list. Supposing we have a policy of posting patches to the list before/after commit, do you t

Re: Commit/patch policy for bug-findutils

2007-06-22 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> Would the members of the list prefer to see the patches? Yes. > Would you comment on them? Probably. > Would you prefer to review them before the commit (and hence protect > the repository better against defects but be on the critical path) or > after (and hence risk there being commits wh

Re: Commit/patch policy for bug-findutils

2007-06-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2007-06-22 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (changing the subject line) [...] > On 6/21/07, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Up to now, I haven't thought about it much. I haven't been posting > >patches to the list, but then there have been no other comitters. > Would t

Re: Commit/patch policy for bug-findutils

2007-06-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to James Youngman on 6/22/2007 2:26 AM: >> Up to now, I haven't thought about it much. I haven't been posting >> patches to the list, but then there have been no other comitters. > > Would the members of the list prefer to see the patches?

Commit/patch policy for bug-findutils

2007-06-22 Thread James Youngman
(changing the subject line) This point came up in discussion with Eric, but I think it's useful to throw the question out to the whole list. Eric has recently worked on some improvements to findutils and asked about the findutils policy on reviewing patches via the list (as for, for example cor