On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 07:17 +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > I have written a small script to make it easy to submit manpage > improvements (it's attached). > I believe that it much more effective to submit a patch, rather than > explaining what needs to be improved. The tool works like quilt... [..] > There is one issue: most of the bugs will have to be forwarded > upstream.[..] > > I would get your opinions on how to make this useful/convenient.
I have received some feedback from a developer who is concerned about having to deal with the contribution from "nitpickers". I must admit that I am concern with bikeshedding and nitpicking too. I had a few ideas... (so far) A. We could have a different work-flow for (non)-native package: - For non-native package, we could instruct people to submit the diff-file to the upstream maintainer. - For native package, we could file a bug in Debian BTS. B. We could provide a way so maintainer could declare whether the bug should be filed upstream or to the BTS. C. We could ship the tool in a package that is usually installed by developers only (shipping the script in a package like devscripts, rather than installing it by default) Option A and C looks interesting... Regards, Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
