Re: Sending in patches

["R. W. Rodolico" <rodo@dailydata.net>]

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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.

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

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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