Re: Patch management

2003-11-21 Thread Stas Bekman
Jeff Trawick wrote: It's great to see that things are happening, Jeff! The people issues are at least: a) making sure patches submitted on the mailing list are in the db, by prodding the submitter to consult some on-line doc that describes the requirements for submitting a patch - get the

Re: Patch management

2003-11-21 Thread Jeff Trawick
Stas Bekman wrote: Jeff Trawick wrote: - make sure that the PR # is in the subject of any on-list discussion of the patch Why not automate this process. Change bugzilla to do the job and autogenerate the right link: a hred=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Post the patch to the httpd-dev list]/a In

Re: Patch management

2003-11-21 Thread Stas Bekman
Jeff Trawick wrote: Stas Bekman wrote: Jeff Trawick wrote: - make sure that the PR # is in the subject of any on-list discussion of the patch Why not automate this process. Change bugzilla to do the job and autogenerate the right link: a hred=mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Post the patch to the

Re: Patch management

2003-11-19 Thread Jeff Trawick
Jeff Trawick wrote: I'd like to write up some notes tomorrow as a draft of a new how to submit a patch, pointing to existing info on httpd patches and describing the current bugzilla capability. With the help of Glenn (gs-apache-dev at gluelogic.com, there is a first draft at

Re: Patch management

2003-11-19 Thread Paul J. Reder
The final sentence seems a bit long and confusing. Perhaps instead of: An important benefit of Apache httpd is that you can modify the source as you require, and while we understand that it is preferable to avoid re-applying patches when a new Apache httpd is released, the ability to do so, along

Re: Patch management

2003-11-19 Thread Jeff Trawick
Paul J. Reder wrote: You could have something like: An important benefit of Apache httpd is that you can modify the source as you require. While we do understand the desire to avoid re-applying patches to each new Apache httpd release, that ability allows users with unique requirements to tailor

Re: Patch management

2003-11-18 Thread Jeff Trawick
André Malo wrote: * Ben Collins-Sussman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW: in the Subversion project, we've assigned the hat of patch manager to a volunteer in the community. He watches patches come in. If any patch goes unanswered for a week or more, the patch manager files it in the

Re: Patch management

2003-11-18 Thread Joshua Slive
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote: What must be done to the bug tracker we have now to track the patches better? (I'm not against having something better, but I don't want to see a delay in waiting for some magic tool.) We can already assign the keyword PatchAvailable for entries and

Re: Patch management

2003-11-18 Thread Jeff Trawick
Joshua Slive wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote: What must be done to the bug tracker we have now to track the patches better? (I'm not against having something better, but I don't want to see a delay in waiting for some magic tool.) We can already assign the keyword PatchAvailable

Patch management

2003-11-16 Thread Andr Malo
* Ben Collins-Sussman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW: in the Subversion project, we've assigned the hat of patch manager to a volunteer in the community. He watches patches come in. If any patch goes unanswered for a week or more, the patch manager files it in the issuetracker. No more