On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:19 AM, haris iqbal <haris.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:15 AM, Dmitry V. Levin <l...@altlinux.org> wrote: [...] >> Don't you see that the patch you are sending out is corrupted? > > Are you talking about the date in the first line? Or is it something else? > >> Is it really so difficult to submit an applicable patch? > > I am trying, I apologize if its really a simple thing.
Haris: actually, we all think this is really a simple thing and take it for granted. Most strace contributors are experienced contributors to Linux distros, kernel, libc or similar and can probably submit a patch in their sleep. Yet I see most new contributors struggle to submit a clean patch to the strace list. So this must not be that easy after all: and if this is not easy to so many then this is not your fault, but _OUR_ fault! Hard is not a good thing here: This creates an artificial barrier to new contributions. (Some might say that this a good thing? I think not) This wastes the precious time of Dmitry -strace's benevolent maintainer for life ;)- when reviewing mundane issues of patch or code formatting rather than dealing with the substance (or in some cases the lack of it). So let's come with a new wiki page to guide newbies through the paces of submitting strace patches! Something along the lines of these guides [1] and [2]? (which you can check out: strace is much simpler than the kernel though we use the same "ways") (and since you will be going through this, may be you could take a stab at writing a mini doc yourself as you go? and posting it here?) wink-wink Hopefully, we can make it easier for you and everyone to submit patches. [1] http://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch [2] https://github.com/gregkh/kernel-tutorial/blob/master/kernel_patch_tutorial.pdf -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Strace-devel mailing list Strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel
