[oe] [meta-oe] patch review for meta-oe

Tom Rini tom_rini at mentor.com
Wed Jul 27 16:10:16 UTC 2011


On 07/27/2011 07:30 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Koen, dear Tom,
> 
> 
> I am surprised that you applied Tom’s patch without incorporating my
> review.
> 
>         commit 77d31f8d3027f6ef96bff61da4bf22cf9618bf21
>         Author:     Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>
>         AuthorDate: Wed Jul 27 03:46:52 2011 +0000
>         Commit:     Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
>         CommitDate: Tue Jul 26 21:51:39 2011 +0200
>         
>             rp-pppoe: Port from oe.dev
>             
>             The difference between this and oe.dev are:
>             - Reset PR
>             - Add bitfields site variable to the endian site file
>               This was wrong in oe.dev for BE (mips).
>             - Add LIC_FILES_CHKSUM
>             
>             Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>
>             Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
> 
> First of all, the dates do not make any sense at all, so it looks like
> you applied it already three minutes after Tom had sent the patch.
> 
> I would suggest, that patches get a little more time for review before
> you apply them, which is of course disadvantageous for people wanted to
> see their patches applied right away.
> 
> But I would like to prevent that “messy” patches get applied to the new
> repositories to get a better quality.
> 
> So Tom, it would be nice if you could sent improvement patches to fix
> the `HOMEPAGE` field, the patch headers and the whitespace. The `PR`
> cannot be fixed now.

Yeah, we were both bad here (I shouldn't have asked Koen and he shoulda
said no).  I'll post an update with your changes incorporated later today.

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation




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