Re: Supporting Gtk+ Maintenance



Yeah, that was me. I've since stopped, and I'm talking with Tor
Lindqvist about how I could be more useful. He's suggesting I go through
the list of unloved patches and review them, which sounds fair enough.

Philip

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 12:39 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 3/15/07, 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
> >
> 
> I see that somebody took up this task now. While I appreciate the effort,
> I don't think that a mere applies/doesn't apply  small/big classification of
> patches helps _that_ much with the patch review.
> 
> I have started a small patch review checklist in
> http://live.gnome.org/GtkTasks#P1
> that should help people who want to bring patches in good shape.
> 
> Matthias
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