Re: [Tinycc-devel] Development/patches - subversion repository

[Rob Landley]

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 1:10 pm, Nick wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I am not too concerned where the repository is hosted

Neither am I.

> - I can provide  
> free svn hosting and there are other services available. My main 
> frustration has been seeing useful patches but with nothing applied to 
> the main source tree.

My earlier question: what patches did you apply to your svn?  Fabrice said 
that CVS has only had two patches applied since the last release.  Possibly I 
can navigate the CVS web thingy enough to figure out what they were.

At this point I'm pretty happy with an Andrew-Morton style repository.  "Take 
the last release and apply these fifteen patches in order".  Let's worry 
about getting stuff in source control once we've figured out what patches 
should be in it.

I should scrub the list archives to see what's out there, and check Dave 
Dodge's list against cvs.  (No, I do NOT have time to maintain another 
project...  But I can help.)

> I think the solution is to open up write access to  
> people actually working with TCC and making patches.

At OLS Alan Cox told me a maintainer's job is to say no.  They're like 
magazine editors: they wade through the slush pile, take the best 
submissions, proofread them and correct them, and stitch them together into 
the next issue.  If they just take every patch they see without even reading 
it first, they're not doing their job.

> For a small project like TCC I figure it can work as without one person 
> as a maintainer. I don't particularly like the single-person-maintainer 
> model and that is why I am not volunteering to be that one person.

Which sucks, because we need that one person and you're the closest we've come 
this week.  (You at least set up an svn and offered to apply patches.)

A good wedge only has one point.  But at this point I think the priority is 
figuring out where the current slush pile is and what's in it.  Which patches 
are candidates for being applied?  (The closest I've seen is Dave Dodge's 
list...)

> The more immediate thing that would help TCC would be a CVS/SVN system 
> that was opened up so that people can apply patches.

Random strangers applying patches with no editorial oversight gives you 
wikipedia.  It's not a good thing.

http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2005-09-17.html

> Nick

Rob
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