Re: [Mesa-dev] Requiring a full author name when contributing to mesa?

2019-12-12 Thread Timothy Arceri
On 13/12/19 10:15 am, Alex Deucher wrote: What does the name matter? The name is the least of your worries. What if their patch uses a patented algorithm? Does anyone check for that? The whole Signed-off-by thing just just hazing for newbs. Someone took the time to write and submit a patch. W

Re: [Mesa-dev] Requiring a full author name when contributing to mesa?

2019-12-12 Thread Alex Deucher
What does the name matter? The name is the least of your worries. What if their patch uses a patented algorithm? Does anyone check for that? The whole Signed-off-by thing just just hazing for newbs. Someone took the time to write and submit a patch. We trust they did the right thing and didn't

Re: [Mesa-dev] Requiring a full author name when contributing to mesa?

2019-12-12 Thread Timothy Arceri
On 13/12/19 1:54 am, Daniel Stone wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 22:35, Timothy Arceri wrote: So it seems lately we have been increasingly merging patches with made up names, or single names etc [1]. The latest submitted patch has the name Icecream95. This seems wrong to me from a point of ke

[Mesa-dev] [ANNOUNCE] mesa 19.3.0

2019-12-12 Thread Dylan Baker
Hi list, Mesa 19.3.0 is now available for general consumption. We finally got all of the blocking issues resolved and 19.3 is available for 2020! This release is slightly late as the Clear Linux team reported that some EGL header changes broke building some packages. Those have been reverted for t

Re: [Mesa-dev] Requiring a full author name when contributing to mesa?

2019-12-12 Thread Daniel Stone
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 22:35, Timothy Arceri wrote: > So it seems lately we have been increasingly merging patches with made > up names, or single names etc [1]. The latest submitted patch has the > name Icecream95. This seems wrong to me from a point of keeping up the > integrity of the project.

Re: [Mesa-dev] Requiring a full author name when contributing to mesa?

2019-12-12 Thread Chuck Atkins
> > My 2 cents, which take with a grain of salt given that I'm an "every once in a while" contributor... This seems wrong to me from a point of keeping up the integrity of the > project. I understand the sentiment of project professionalism, but also keep in mind that not every contributor is a

Re: [Mesa-dev] Requiring a full author name when contributing to mesa?

2019-12-12 Thread apinheiro
On 12/12/19 5:46, Mark Janes wrote: Ian Romanick writes: On 12/11/19 2:27 PM, Timothy Arceri wrote: Hi, So it seems lately we have been increasingly merging patches with made up names, or single names etc [1]. The latest submitted patch has the name Icecream95. This seems wrong to me from a

Re: [Mesa-dev] Requiring a full author name when contributing to mesa?

2019-12-12 Thread apinheiro
On 12/12/19 0:38, Eric Engestrom wrote: On 2019-12-11 at 23:09, Eric Anholt wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:35 PM Timothy Arceri wrote: Hi, So it seems lately we have been increasingly merging patches with made up names, or single names etc [1]. The latest submitted patch has the name Icecr

Re: [Mesa-dev] Is it time to stop using the mailing list for patch review?

2019-12-12 Thread Michel Dänzer
On 2019-12-11 7:35 p.m., Marek Olšák wrote: > > Merging a branch: > 1*) Check that all CI pipelines have succeeded. > 2) Rebase your local branch and force-push to your private branch. > 3) Wait ~10 seconds. > 4) Push that branch to master (git push origin HEAD:master). Gitlab will > automatically