On 7/29/08, Luis Medinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 22:10 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > > Hey > > > > On 7/29/08, Andrew Conkling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to coordinate with the developers of Banshee, but I suppose > this > > > is a good general question: > > > > > > For a non-developer (like me) interested in contributing to bugs and the > > > inevitable patches, is there a status I can slap on a patch to say, "I've > > > checked this out and, at the very least, it does what it says it does > [but I > > > can't speak to its elegance, style, or other code-specific things]"? > > > > > > Any advice would be most appreciated; reviewing patches is, at least for > > > Banshee, a common bottleneck and can be frustrating for developers and > > > contributors. > > > > > > > Supposedly this is one of the reasons for the PatchSquad[0], there's a > > mailing list[1] (still with 0 mails) and a wiki. > > > > I've been doing something similar for GTK+[2]. Rob Bradford and I were > > supposed to bootstrap it in GUADEC but didn't have the time to chat > > about it. > > Right now I can comment you based on my experience with the GTK+ > > patches that the hard work is only getting developers to review the > > patches. I can advice you the following concretely: > > - Do a list of patches, mostly simple fixes > > - Group those patches like: small, ready to commit, decision needed, etc. > > - Try with small patches first so the patch queue flush is more evident. > > > > Now, it's a good time to do a call for arms :). Is anyone else > > interested in starting the patchsquad for real? I mean, start to maybe > > do IRC meetings and cleaning modules, etc. > > A good first task would be to pick modules from the module list in the > > wiki (mostly Vincent modules) and try -say- 5 patches and get together > > in IRC to try to come up with a common workflow and format to present > > our work. > > > > Diego said most of the important things that will be on patchsquad soon. > We are going to do final draft of the things that will need to go for > the final stage to patchsquad to become a team like patchsquad. This is > really a team that needs to happen to improve patches to Gnome go on. Me > like Diego, Rob, Lucas, Ken and more people like to give this project > some wings. Stay on. >
Ah great, I only knew of Lucas and Rob, and only because Lucas said "talk with Rob" :). Shall we open a thread on patchsquad list then (and in the process take the bubble wrap out of it)? greetings _______________________________________________ Gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
