Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

[Troy Rollo]

On Saturday 23 September 2006 19:24, Kai Blin wrote:
> On WineConf, we decided against this. That would still slow down the
> overall patch submission speed. Consider you have a patch that's just fine,
> but before you sent that, I sent in ten patches with C++ style comments.
> Alexandre would now have to reply to ten patches with "No C++ style
> comments" before processing your patch. Everybody reading wine-patches
> could point out what was wrong with my patches.

All this points to is a need to automate - sending this reply should be a 
one-click action. In fact this particular one (and no doubt many others) 
could be done by a reply-bot.

Other things that could be done by a reply-bot:

	unacceptable patch format
	no patch found in message
	missing ChangeLog

Perhaps a reply-bot should send out a copy of the guidelines the first time a 
new contributor submits something to wine-patches (or even to existing 
contributors when there have been changes to the guidelines).

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Troy Rollo - wine at troy.rollo.name