Re: Ad-hoc notes from the "pending patches" BOF at the GNU tools cauldron.

2012-07-20 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:01:37 +0300 (EEST) Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > Replying to myself, I was just informed (thanks hp!) that there is the > "URL" field in bugzilla, where the owner of the bug can add one relevant > URL. I tried it and it's very useful, it would be even better if I could >

Re: Ad-hoc notes from the "pending patches" BOF at the GNU tools cauldron.

2012-07-11 Thread Hans-Peter Nilsson
> From: Dimitrios Apostolou > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:25:49 +0200 > Hi hp, thanks for the notes, I'm just going to highlight my point of view. > > Regarding patch pinging, my take is that is should be seldom necessary, > for example I tend to forget my small patches after sometime. Me too, s

Re: Ad-hoc notes from the "pending patches" BOF at the GNU tools cauldron.

2012-07-11 Thread Jason Merrill
Does anyone have experience with Patchwork? It sounds like it works with a mailing list with less requirement for special markup than dannyb's tracker had. Jason

Re: Ad-hoc notes from the "pending patches" BOF at the GNU tools cauldron.

2012-07-11 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote: > On a whim I hosted a BOF at the GNU tools cauldron yesterday, > titled "pending patches" (no compliance with RFC5434 intended). Thanks for the notes. I want to add one point. There are a number of useful tools that we can imagine. How

Re: Ad-hoc notes from the "pending patches" BOF at the GNU tools cauldron.

2012-07-11 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: * Have a field in the bugzilla keeping "related ML threads" URLs. What I do now is post a separate comment saying "discussed here" or "posted patch here". Not sure if good enough, but on bugs I've not seen it in cases I needed to. Replying to m

Re: Ad-hoc notes from the "pending patches" BOF at the GNU tools cauldron.

2012-07-09 Thread Dimitrios Apostolou
Hi hp, thanks for the notes, I'm just going to highlight my point of view. Regarding patch pinging, my take is that is should be seldom necessary, for example I tend to forget my small patches after sometime. So IMHO anyone replying anything is good, especially if he CCs the maintainer (Dodji-