[oe] [RFC] push those patches, push'em up

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 01:41:02 Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OE has quite many patches that are just too valuable to keep to
> ourselves.  In the spirit of our bug sprint weekends, I want to propose
> patch-pushing weekends.  Maybe we can even replace the former with the
> latter.  I'd like to propose the coming weekend as the first of this kind.

This is an awesome idea, we really need to get this started sooner than later.

> To get everybody on the same page and to make sure this is a sustainable
>  effort, I'd also like to propose some soft policy for patches committed
> to OE.  This should help us quickly find those patches still in need of
> some pushing.
>
>  1) first line in a patch starts with upstream: and goes on to list the
>     URL where the bug has been reported upstream.
>  2) further information can optionally be listed in the following fields
>     * status: pending, accepted in XXX, rejected
>     * origin: where the patch has been stolen ;-)
>     * comment: any further detail such as description or reason for
>                application of the patch

Sounds pretty good to me.

:M:
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