Requirements gathering for new package source control
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Jun 10 12:19:20 UTC 2008
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:12:09 -0400
Michel Salim <michel.sylvan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > At the upcoming FUDCon I plan to hold a session or two regarding
> > requirements and discussions about the future of our package source
> > control. This is NOT a time to argue about one SCM being "better" than
> > another. I don't really want to hear any SCM names at all, rather I'm
> > interested purely in only what we require and what we'd like out of our
> > package source control. I'm sending this mail to get people thinking
> > about it, and to give the people who won't be at FUDCon a chance at
> > dropping their thoughts in.
> >
> ...
> > I'll be gathering feedback over the next few days and putting them into
> > a not as of yet created wiki page.
> >
> Being able to keep classify patches:
> - - backports from upstream SCM
> - - fixes for upstream, already forwarded (with integration to upstream
> bug-filing system if possible, or at least the bug report URL)
> - - fixes for upstream, unsent (still being tested or cleaned-up)
> - - Fedora-specific fixes, not to be forwarded
You can do all of those already. Just include comments at the top of
the patch itself.
josh
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