Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:39:51 +0200
From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists
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To: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
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Gregory Stark napsal(a):
> "Zdenek Kotala" <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:
> 
>> Gregory Stark napsal(a):
>>> "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> How about hacking together a simple patch tracker instead, as Bruce
>>>> suggested?  I've never found e-mail to be a particularly good way to track
>>>> patches.  
>>> The thing is that we don't just want to "track" patches. We want to talk about
>>> patches.
>> I think we want to have both. If you have big patch you don't want go through
>> all patch again and again when new version is released with only few changes.
>> If you are able to have diff between two patch versions you are able preform
>> easy check if all comments are already fixed.
> 
> Ah, that's not something a patch tracker or a mailing list would solve. There
> is a tool that would solve this -- a revision control system. 

OK. I little bit confused what patch tracer should do. Is it only for tracking 
discuss about patches?

> We aren't using CVS the way it's really intended. If all this development
> happened on branches then people could go look at the current version at any
> point, not just when authors decide to announce it. And people could generate
> diffs between the last time they looked at that branch and now etc.

Yeah, I discussed this with Peter E. during his Prague visit and it should be 
big deal for code reviewing and new feature development.

	Zdenek