[Sugar-devel] Patchwork

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 16:21, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 14:35 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> "Obsessed" and "pedantry" don't help at all in this discussion, please
>> try to be fair to the people you discuss with and avoid adding
>> unnecessary drama.
>>
>> If you don't help me reach consensus, I will just forget about this
>> issue and keep doing my job.
>
> I take this to mean "automatic bug updates are a must-have for me".

I'm puzzled at how you reached this conclusion, all I'm asking is to
lower the hostility.

We are asking people to add the url to the commit manually now and I
don't see why we would *need* to change that right now.

Even more, I'm personally ok with not having the bug -> commit
reference as long as we make sure there's a url to the bug or at the
very least the bug id in the commit message.

> Ok, if nobody else volunteers to do it, I'll spend some time trying to
> make it work. I personally don't think it's very useful, but it's also
> not harmful as long as it's implemented with commit hooks so it doesn't
> require all developers to install yet another special tool just to
> contribute a patch to Sugar.
>
>
>> Also, if people cannot find ways to improve the tools that support the
>> new process, maybe it's better to stay with the old one for the time
>> being?
>
> Tools to do this aren't already available off the shelf, probably
> because very few projects thought it was worth the time to write them.
> In GCC, I've always been able to find the patch discussion in the
> mailing-list archives by simply googling for some keywords.
> Alternatively, one could grep the git log for the bug number.
>
> In either case, it takes just a few seconds to reconstruct this
> information without the help of a bug tracker.

This is not my experience.

Thanks,

Tomeu

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