Re: Applying patches

2009-03-03 Thread Ross Gardler
2009/3/3 David Crossley : > Ross Gardler wrote: >> Further to Davids recent "developers must help developers" email, > > To be clear, i deliberately did not use the word "must". > Instead i chose "need to". People do whatever they like. > However developers do need to help each other, to keep > any

Re: Applying patches

2009-03-03 Thread David Crossley
Ross Gardler wrote: > Further to Davids recent "developers must help developers" email, To be clear, i deliberately did not use the word "must". Instead i chose "need to". People do whatever they like. However developers do need to help each other, to keep any project happening. Thanks for also p

Applying patches

2009-03-02 Thread Ross Gardler
Further to Davids recent "developers must help developers" email, can I point out that recently some of us have been actively helping a new contributor. That contributor has provided a useful patch to our docs in direct response to our assistance and has identified a potential problem in our FO sty

applying patches

2006-09-26 Thread David Crossley
; > > > No sure how others do it, but I would just copy the file, give it the > > > New name and then add it to our svn with 'svn add filename.xml' and then > > > Commit it. So, again no patch needed. > > > > To copy a file in svn do "svn cp

Applying patches promptly( was Re: Release Manager - RM)

2006-04-23 Thread Ross Gardler
hungover right now, applying patches with little thought may be an easy Sunday afternoon task. Everyone has been warned (i.e. please at least do a cursory review for me if someone has the chance) Ross

Re: Please be sure not to break existing functionality when applying patches (re HTML2document.xsl)

2005-10-25 Thread Ross Gardler
Ross Gardler wrote: [This is not directed at anyone in particular, we are all, including me, responsible for the oversight of our code base] The behaviour of the html-to-document.xsl has been changed recently. This has already caused problems for a user and now for me. In short an HTML page

Please be sure not to break existing functionality when applying patches (re HTML2document.xsl)

2005-10-25 Thread Ross Gardler
[This is not directed at anyone in particular, we are all, including me, responsible for the oversight of our code base] The behaviour of the html-to-document.xsl has been changed recently. This has already caused problems for a user and now for me. In short an HTML page has to start with an