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

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Mon Oct 15 02:40:51 PDT 2012


On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 16:13 +0300, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> 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?

It would be, yes.



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