On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:45:20AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/5/16 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Lucas Nussbaum threw the idea of having a webpage with posisbly > > annotated patches for each Debian package on *.debian.org at me the > > other day, in response to the OpenSSL debacle. I really liked it! > > I think it would be a great Idea, but the point would be to be able to > automate the process of uploading the patches there somehow from the > package source. Combined with the idea of anotating the patches in the > source packages, the result might be quite useful. I'm quite afraid > that if the process is not automatic, but manual, the amount of extra > work and redundancy of uploading the patches twice (once for the > package, another one for the patches alone) will lead to very few > developers participating, and also to desynchronization between the > patches being uploaded and the real patches in the packages.
As an example, I'd point to http://glandium.org/debian/teams/pkg-mozilla/mozpatches.html which I maintained a while ago, and stopped because it was too time consuming and bothersome. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]