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

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Mon Oct 15 02:47:33 PDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 11:40 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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.

And done. Let me know if you see any other mentions of using the
mailing-list to send patches.

Cheers



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