On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:31:47AM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > I already tried this one, and it doens't seem to be
> > the best one: I sent a patch a couple of months ago
> > to the list, but I didn't get any answers...so I beg
> > for Ralf to look at it on IRC, but he seems to have
> > not time for it...So now I'm trying to find out a new
> > approach....
>
> Don't expect that sending a patch once always leads to it's prompt
> acceptance. Pushing a patch *can* involve resending it multiple times,
> over a long period of time. However, if a patch is in acceptable state
> (that is, a half-way readable coding style, no superfluous debugging
> output, ...), Ralf usually takes it quite fast.
Unless he's on vacation and tries to be a happy man by avoiding email
software ;-)
> > Futhermore, this solution can take several months
> > before every patches have been submitted and accepted.
> > During this while I'll need to be synchronised with
> > CVS tree.
>
> That isn't all that easy, especially with CVS and especially if you want
> to keep patches in nicely separated changesets. With CVS, this
> unfortunately involves some manual work, or clever scripting. But SCM
> systems are a totally different topic. "quilt" may work for you, though.
I recommend Quilt which is availalble from Savannah. It's done a great
job for me in developping and maintaining a bunch of patches independant
of each other.
Ralf
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