Hi All,
   Don't focus on my wording but more along the lines of what I'm trying to
do and that is to make the patch submission process easier.  All I am
looking for is a consensus on whether an email format would make identifying
patch requests easier.

Take care,

Jeremy

P.S. - I agree with the stance of not liking guidelines but that wasn't my
intention of the email.

On 1/18/07, David Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Jan 18, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Dain Sundstrom wrote:

> I'd like to suggest a sightly different tact. Instead of writing
> Guidelines, how about writing "How to get involved" (maybe we
> already have one).  Specifically, I'm thinking about a section on
> best practices for working on an issue including assignment, patch
> submission, and the related email to the dev list.
>
> I have a dislike for stuff labeled "Guidelines"

I know what you mean.  If someone printed their diff onto paper and
snail-mailed me their patch, I'd still take it and say thank you :)

Course I would let them know there are easier ways that might help
them out and save them time.  A document in that spirit would be great.

-David


> -dain
>
> On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Jeremy Whitlock wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>    I was wondering if we had patch submission guide lines?  If we
>> do not,
>> can we put some together.  Now that I'm getting more involved in
>> OpenEJB
>> (finally) I would like to make it easier on developers to be able to
>> identify patch requests on the mailing list.  I know we have Jira
>> to house
>> the issues and the patch contents but usually you get an email
>> asking for
>> someone to review/apply a patch and since there is no particular
>> format for
>> the request, it is hard to make sure you don't miss a request.
>> I'm not sure
>> we need a real process but maybe just a suggested email subject
>> line that
>> jumps out to us developers so we don't overlook a patch review/
>> application
>> request.  Thoughts?
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> Jeremy
>


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