Re: Supporting Gtk+ Maintenance

["मयंक जैन (makuchaku)" <mayank gnu gmail com>]

On 3/16/07, Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> wrote:
> Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to do this:
>
> - Get the latest GTK+ from svn trunk.
>
> - Go through each of the unreviewed patches and classify them
> informally:
>
>         - obsolete patch which does not apply "as-is" to the sources
>           (you can use "patch --dry-run" to test this easily without
>           screwing up your source tree)
>         - big patch which needs detailed testing/review
>         - small patch which could be tested/reviewed in a few minutes

29 patches were categorized. More to go...

Is there a way to check programatically (scripts/patch-command/etc)
that if a patch is applicable to be applied with p0 or p1?

If so, then this process of categorizing patches can be automated i suppose.

...any comments, suggestions :)

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