[oe] RFC: Patch policy

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello Robert and crews,

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Robert Schwebel
<r.schwebel at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hi Marcin, Richard & OE crew,
>
> At ELC-E, we discussed how we could improve the collaboration between
> the cross build systems out there. Although there are big differences
> in what kind of tools people use, there is one thing that all cross
> build systems have in common: patches for upstream packets.
>
> - patches have to be in the canonical patch format, as known from linux
> - proper Signed-off-by: lines
> ...
> What do you think? Should we try to create a new patch stack which
> follows these rules, in order to lower the ammount of duplicate work? At
> least for us, this would be very interesting.
>

- Standard naming of the patch (numbered series etc).
- A shared (possibly distributed) patch server with patches against the package?

Regards,
-- 
Leon