[fprint] [PATCH 0/8] [RFC] Build drivers as shared objects

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Mon Oct 8 08:30:12 PDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 18:20 +0300, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
> 
> > Finally, patches should go to Bugzilla (bugzilla.freedesktop.org), not
> > the mailing-list.
> 
> Out of curiosity, why?
> 
> It's easy enough to apply patch from mailbox, it's much easier to
> review patches and comment on them in maillist,
> and it's ordinary git workflow we're used to.

Not here, not in GNOME. I hate patches to mailing-lists with a passion.
They clog what should be discussions.

> Bugzilla is OK for 1 small patch, but it does not fit for patch(es)
> that implements new feature or driver.

Why not? It fits very well. There's built-in review tools, git-bz to
attach series of patches and apply them.

Cheers



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