Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-04-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > The best patch-tracking candidate I’ve seen so far is “patches”, written > by/for the QEMU people (the ‘patches’ package in Guix.) > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/#patches > > I think it has everything most of us want, including an Emacs i

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Cyril Roelandt skribis: > I think we could have a mailing-list dedicated to these trivial update > patches. I'd also be in favor of splitting the mailing-list into many > smaller ones, such as: > - core; > - packages; > - trivial updates. I’m not sure it would help much because it is often quite

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-30 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:52:15PM +0200, Cyril Roelandt wrote: > On 03/21/2016 04:48 PM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > > To automate the repetitive tasks, Cyril Roelandt had started sometimes > > ago to work on a bot that was continuously applying and building > > incoming patches on top of master and r

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-30 Thread Cyril Roelandt
On 03/21/2016 04:48 PM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > To automate the repetitive tasks, Cyril Roelandt had started sometimes > ago to work on a bot that was continuously applying and building > incoming patches on top of master and report (by email) if things were > building correctly. I think that is a

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-24 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-24 01:24 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Ricardo Wurmus (2016-03-23 10:41 +0300) wrote: >> >>> Chris Marusich writes: >>> While we're talking about patches, I'm curious: how are other people managing the patches? In particular, what does the workflow l

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus (2016-03-23 10:41 +0300) wrote: > >> Chris Marusich writes: >> >>> While we're talking about patches, I'm curious: how are other people >>> managing the patches? In particular, what does the workflow look like >>> for people who are committing? Do you manual

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-23 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 09:44:47PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > > While we're talking about patches, I'm curious: how are other people > managing the patches? In particular, what does the workflow look like > for people who are committing? Do you manually download the patch (or > patches) to a

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-23 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed 23 Mar 2016 09:15, Chris Marusich writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> I’m using an email client in Emacs, so the email as well as the attached >> patch is shown in a regular text buffer. When I see the patch I can >> directly apply it by running “git am” on the buffer contents, or by >

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-23 Thread Chris Marusich
Alex Kost writes: >> I’m using an email client in Emacs, so the email as well as the attached >> patch is shown in a regular text buffer. When I see the patch I can >> directly apply it by running “git am” on the buffer contents, or by >> opening a shell and running “git am” on the file associat

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-23 Thread Alex Kost
Ricardo Wurmus (2016-03-23 10:41 +0300) wrote: > Chris Marusich writes: > >> While we're talking about patches, I'm curious: how are other people >> managing the patches? In particular, what does the workflow look like >> for people who are committing? Do you manually download the patch (or >>

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-23 Thread Chris Marusich
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > I’m using an email client in Emacs, so the email as well as the attached > patch is shown in a regular text buffer. When I see the patch I can > directly apply it by running “git am” on the buffer contents, or by > opening a shell and running “git am” on the file associa

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Chris Marusich writes: > While we're talking about patches, I'm curious: how are other people > managing the patches? In particular, what does the workflow look like > for people who are committing? Do you manually download the patch (or > patches) to a temporary folder, view it/them, and if y

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-22 Thread Chris Marusich
While we're talking about patches, I'm curious: how are other people managing the patches? In particular, what does the workflow look like for people who are committing? Do you manually download the patch (or patches) to a temporary folder, view it/them, and if you like what you see, commit it w

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nils Gillmann skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Hi! >> >> The best patch-tracking candidate I’ve seen so far is “patches”, written >> by/for the QEMU people (the ‘patches’ package in Guix.) >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/#patches >> >> I think it has every

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-22 Thread Nils Gillmann
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi! > > The best patch-tracking candidate I’ve seen so far is “patches”, written > by/for the QEMU people (the ‘patches’ package in Guix.) > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/#patches > > I think it has everything most of us want, including an

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! The best patch-tracking candidate I’ve seen so far is “patches”, written by/for the QEMU people (the ‘patches’ package in Guix.) https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/#patches I think it has everything most of us want, including an Emacs interface. The main “difficulty” is setting it

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-21 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Mathieu Lirzin writes: > Cyril: Do you think the bot option is feasible?

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-21 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hi, Nils Gillmann writes: > As you maybe already noticed, and I hope this is not just a > temporary impression I have after ~4 months or so, guix-devel is > getting an increasing amount of messages per day and per month. Same feeling here. > In my opinion this makes it hard to keep track of pa

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-21 Thread Nils Gillmann
Nils Gillmann writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Nils Gillmann writes: >> >>> First follow up idea: >>> >>> Ideal case would be: >>> - integration with Guix in the future (the emacs interface and >>>other potential future interfaces) >>> - integration into Guix website >>> - patches c

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-21 Thread Nils Gillmann
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Nils Gillmann writes: > >> First follow up idea: >> >> Ideal case would be: >> - integration with Guix in the future (the emacs interface and >>other potential future interfaces) >> - integration into Guix website >> - patches can be marked: >>- state (done/op

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Nils Gillmann writes: > First follow up idea: > > Ideal case would be: > - integration with Guix in the future (the emacs interface and >other potential future interfaces) > - integration into Guix website > - patches can be marked: >- state (done/open) >- priority > - patches ca

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-21 Thread Nils Gillmann
First follow up idea: Ideal case would be: - integration with Guix in the future (the emacs interface and other potential future interfaces) - integration into Guix website - patches can be marked: - state (done/open) - priority - patches can be assigned to more than 1 person - webin

[REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

2016-03-20 Thread Nils Gillmann
As you maybe already noticed, and I hope this is not just a temporary impression I have after ~4 months or so, guix-devel is getting an increasing amount of messages per day and per month. In my opinion this makes it hard to keep track of patches and maybe also makes the workflow of people with co