[Mono-list] Patches to Mono.

Daniel Lewis dihlewis@yahoo.co.uk
Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:51:33 +0000 (GMT)


Could you fix it so the script scans the commit log for some sort of an ignore
keyword? Do any CVS users know if this is possible?

Dan.

 --- Miguel de Icaza <miguel@ximian.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone,
> 
>    One mechanism that we have used at Ximian with Mono is that before we
> make a CVS commit, we make a diff of the changes and post the patches to
> an internal mailing list of ours.
> 
>    Posting the patches is used to do some peer-review of the code, and
> at the same time allow for the code to hit CVS as soon as possible.  So
> we do the peer-review in an out-of-band fashion.
> 
>    We tried for some time to use the public mailing list
> (mono-list@ximian.com) to post the patches, but some people complained
> that this was too much traffic and not necessarily something they were
> interested in.
> 
>    I have created a new mailing list called
> `mono-patches-list@ximian.com'.  Now the question is whether we should
> continue with manual patches being sent to the mailing list or whether
> we should have a script that posts the patches as they get commited to
> the CVS.
> 
>    The plus side is that we get and automated setup (so we get the
> default behaviour by default), the downside is that you will get every
> single two-line commit to the CVS posted to that mailing list.
> 
>    So I am not sure what is the best thing to do.
> 
> Miguel.
> 
> 
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