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