I'd almost prefer all patches to be submitted as a link to a GitHub repo, but since our SCM is SVN natively, I'm not sure how well that would work. It would certainly be ideal if we had a native Git repo for Accumulo... is the one on apache.org writable, or just a read only view of what's in svn?
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Drew Farris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > In the past, when I've used JIRA and uploaded multiple versions of > patches to the same issue, I've simply used the same filename, and > JIRA took care of putting a strikethrough in the listings for the old > version of the patch, indicating that they were available but should > be ignored. > > These days, it simply greys the old patch versions out. It makes > things a little less clear as to which patches should be applied to > obtain the fix. > > There is some value in maintaining a patch history, but in many cases > old patches should be trashed to make it clear which patch should be > applied to obtain the fix. > > Any patch posted should contain the entire change for a given issue, > as opposed to requiring individuals working the issue to apply > multpile patches to obtain an update. > > Does this make sense, or does anyone think patches should be handled > differently? > > Drew
