On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 05:01:38PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > I think it's a good idea to use the mailing list whenever possible. > Likewise, if you see a patch go in that you think would have benefited > from being on the list, point it out.
Sometimes it would have benefited *others* if the patch was posted (either before or after commit). Consider commit: commit 3caf2562c21278aa9992bc7e6b5bbe98bc79f92e Author: malc <av1...@comtv.ru> Date: Wed Dec 30 04:26:34 2009 +0300 sdl: print the reason why SDL thinks SDL_Init failed before exiting Signed-off-tby: malc <av1...@comtv.ru> So after this is applied, we print out failure reason which is good. But this was only applied on master, and I think this patch would be good to have on 0.12 and even 0.11 branches: it is very safe, and SDL init failures are a FAQ. I hope this illustrates how it is good to post even obvious patches to the list. --