[Mesa-dev] [OS]Mesa MinGW AppVeyor Repository

[Emil Velikov]

On 2 October 2017 at 15:16, Trevor (CIMdata) <trevor.sandy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Emil,
>
> Yes, I did see the AppVeyor integraton for MSVC. It could be quite easy to
> add the MinGW scope to the metrix.
>
>
>
> I don’t really know how to ‘upsteam’ the patches I use mostly because I am
> not the author. Do I just submit a PR? Anyway to help George with his patch
> – which fixes the MinGW build – I have done the CI script, AppVeyor.yml and
> set up AV repo. My source if free and w/o license. Please feel free to use
> it if you wish. Many thanks!
>
The top page while searching for "mesa submitting patches" gives [1].

Please skim through it but in a gist:
 - fire git format-patch(ed) patches to the list. Since I'm lazy I
directly use git send-email $old_sha..$new_sha
 - patches should have commit messages
 - try to attribute the author when that's not you - see git commit
--author="foo"

Keep in mind that if a developer has to spend time X applying OOT
patches, that's X less time for addressing other issues.

Thanks
Emil

[1] https://www.mesa3d.org/submittingpatches.html