Re: Patch status for a non-developer

["Diego Escalante Urrelo" <diegoe gnome org>]

On 7/29/08, Luis Medinas <lmedinas gnome org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 22:10 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
>  > Hey
>  >
>  > On 7/29/08, Andrew Conkling <andrew conkling gmail com> wrote:
>  > > I'm trying to coordinate with the developers of Banshee, but I suppose this
>  > > is a good general question:
>  > >
>  > > For a non-developer (like me) interested in contributing to bugs and the
>  > > inevitable patches, is there a status I can slap on a patch to say, "I've
>  > > checked this out and, at the very least, it does what it says it does [but I
>  > > can't speak to its elegance, style, or other code-specific things]"?
>  > >
>  > > Any advice would be most appreciated; reviewing patches is, at least for
>  > > Banshee, a common bottleneck and can be frustrating for developers and
>  > > contributors.
>  > >
>  >
>  > Supposedly this is one of the reasons for the PatchSquad[0], there's a
>  > mailing list[1] (still with 0 mails) and a wiki.
>  >
>  > I've been doing something similar for GTK+[2]. Rob Bradford and I were
>  > supposed to bootstrap it in GUADEC but didn't have the time to chat
>  > about it.
>  > Right now I can comment you based on my experience with the GTK+
>  > patches that the hard work is only getting developers to review the
>  > patches. I can advice you the following concretely:
>  >  - Do a list of patches, mostly simple fixes
>  >  - Group those patches like: small, ready to commit, decision needed, etc.
>  >  - Try with small patches first so the patch queue flush is more evident.
>  >
>  > Now, it's a good time to do a call for arms :). Is anyone else
>  > interested in starting the patchsquad for real? I mean, start to maybe
>  > do IRC meetings and cleaning modules, etc.
>  > A good first task would be to pick modules from the module list in the
>  > wiki (mostly Vincent modules) and try -say- 5 patches and get together
>  > in IRC to try to come up with a common workflow and format to present
>  > our work.
>  >
>
> Diego said most of the important things that will be on patchsquad soon.
>  We are going to do final draft of the things that will need to go for
>  the final stage to patchsquad to become a team like patchsquad. This is
>  really a team that needs to happen to improve patches to Gnome go on. Me
>  like Diego, Rob, Lucas, Ken and more people like to give this project
>  some wings. Stay on.
>

Ah great, I only knew of Lucas and Rob, and only because Lucas said
"talk with Rob" :).
Shall we open a thread on patchsquad list then (and in the process
take the bubble wrap out of it)?

greetings