Re: Sending in patches

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hey Rod,

this is a great offer. Thank you very much. I hope that someone will
find this useful.

On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 13:24 -0600, R. W. Rodolico wrote:
> I understand that some people may need or want Windows as their base
> machine and have little reason for having a separate Unix (Linux)
> machine. Yet, in some cases, having access to such a machine for
> development purposes could be useful.
> 
> I run a series of servers at a NOC here in the US. If anyone is
> interested, I'd be happy to build out a Linux or FreeBSD virtual for
> this purpose. I could be a pure Command Line machine (what I normally
> run) or I could put a very basic GUI (XFCE4) on it. You could choose
> to access it via OpenVPN (much more secure) or direct public IP.

Just wanted to say quickly that it will have to be a Linux. I am not
sure if is possible in any way to build IPFire on a BSD. Our build
system doesn't support this right now and I doubt that this is possible
at all. So use Linux please.

> 
> If anyone wants to try it, let me know. This is totally no pressure,
> you can try the system, and if the environment is too alien for you
> to
> really get work done, then just bail out. But I'd be happy to set it
> up for one or more developers to use.
> 
> Feel free to respond on list, or write me directly.
> 
> Rod

-Michael

> 
> On 01/15/2016 02:07 AM, IT Superhack wrote:
> > Hello Michael,
> > 
> > Michael Tremer:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > so about half a week has passed since my initial email. I suppose
> > > this is all that is coming and that the others are perfectly
> > > satisfied with this process.
> > > 
> > > So let's conclude:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 21:40 +0100, Larsen wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:54:26 +0100, Michael Tremer 
> > > > <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I find this process with "git send-email" very easy and I am 
> > > > > not sure where the problems could be.
> > > > 
> > > > I am using TortoiseGit with Windows 7. I don't know if this
> > > > tool supports "git send-email" and I wouldn't want to use
> > > > command line git (it is annoying to use more than one tool for
> > > > the same job, IMHO).
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I didn't know that this many people use Windows. The problem with
> > > that is you cannot build the distribution. You can copy some
> > > files back and forth, but never build.
> > > 
> > > I consider this to be a huge disadvantage.
> > > 
> > > Is this just by choice or did you not want to go through the
> > > trouble setting up a Linux system?
> > > 
> > > > Therefore, I create a patch file using TortoiseGit (I need a
> > > > workflow reminder for this to get it right), then send the
> > > > contents with Thunderbird where I have to remember to disable
> > > > line wrap (also using a workflow reminder text).
> > > 
> > > When ever you make personal notes, why not use the wiki for that
> > > and share? Many other people might have the same questions.
> > I recently wrote a page about sending in patches via a Mail User
> > Agent. It can be found here:
> > https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/send-tb-patches (Thanks to Matthias
> > Fischer here who sent me a good hint about disabling line-wrapping
> > in TB.)
> > > 
> > > > In other projects (using Github), IMHO it is much easier to
> > > > push to one's own repository and create a merge request to the
> > > > upstream repository.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > We can't use GitHub. I have explained that at various occasions
> > > and this thread wasn't started to discuss other tools. Other
> > > things have been proposed, too, and the same goes for them.
> > > 
> > > At the end the only problem I understand you are experiencing
> > > here is actually emailing the patch files without your mail
> > > agents not making garbage out of that. This can't be too hard to
> > > get right.
> > > 
> > > > Discussion can take place with that merge request.
> > > 
> > > No, not at all. This process is actually well thought through
> > > and designed to maximise participation of the users and make
> > > everything easy for developers. And I actually think it does that
> > > well.
> > For me, sending in patches is not a very big issue since you only
> > need to "set up" a system for sending in patches once.
> > 
> > The problem is more the workflow after a patch has been sent in.
> > Some of them seem to be dropped silently, while others are
> > commented and then somehow forgotten. Perhaps I need to polish my
> > english skills in order to add better descriptions to my patches...
> > ;-)
> > > 
> > > > In case you are open to using other tools in place of
> > > > Patchwork, what
> > > > 
> > > > about Gitlab?
> > > 
> > > Patchwork is just a view to the patches. My actual repository for
> > > that is my inbox.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Lars
> > > 
> > > -Michael
> > > 
> > Best regards, Timmothy Wilson
> > 
> > 
> 

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