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

Vasily Khoruzhick anarsoul at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 06:13:35 PDT 2012


On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> 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.

Just FYI: please see "Contributing" paragraph of
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/libfprint
and HACKING file from libfprint git master. Both places state that
patches should be sent into maillist.
Maybe it's necessary to fix wiki and HACKING?

Regards
Vasily


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