Wine Staging patch submission

Hugh McMaster hugh.mcmaster at outlook.com
Mon Oct 26 02:01:06 CDT 2015


On Friday, 23 Oct 2015 18:55:18 +0200, Sebastian Lackner wrote:
>The development branch has more infrastructure for patch management than just
>the wine-patches and wine-devel mailing list, you also have to take into account
>the patch status page for example. Even the development branch of Wine, where
>most of the patches go upstream right on the next day, needs a way to keep track
>of the patch status.
> 
>[...]
>
>I also think that the suggested solution does not hide anything from the rest of
>the Wine developers. The WineHQ bugtracker is publicly available to everyone,
>and flexible enough to configure all kind of notifications you want to receive.
>I would guess most people are not really interested in Staging tree related
>submissions, because even in the month after WineConf, I didn't receive any
>offers from "new people" to help cleaning up our patches for example... but if
>there is, it doesn't sound like something which is impossible to solve.
> 
>I have no problem with alternative suggestions, but just saying "use the mailing
>lists" doesn't work. Mailing lists do not replace proper patch tracking, which
>is what we are really talking about here.

To bring this discussion full circle, how will Staging pick up patches from wine-patches?
And how will this be signified? Will the upstream patch tracker have a "Staged" status
assigned by one of the maintainers?
 		 	   		  


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