[pulseaudio-discuss] Patch review status wiki page updated

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:14:02 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:

> Patch review status updated:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/PatchStatus/
> 
> Statistics:
> 
> * 2014-04-17
>    * 157 patches are pending review (not counting the "in a github
> branch" patches).

What does "in a github branch" mean (what repo)? Does this mean that 
github pull requests are acceptable forms of supplying patches? It 
appears to me that current practice is to *not* submit patches through 
the bugzilla. Is this understanding correct?

Background:

I recently joined the PA maintenance team in debian (Hi All!). As I have 
been sifting through old (downstream) bug reports I have forwarded some 
things (as did Balint for the patches we carry), but tracking their 
status is not easy, as it requires searching through the mailing list 
archives to see if the patch had objections, or maybe was resubmitted, or 
was NACKed.

What would be ideal from my POV is a single (unchanging) URL per patch, 
so that I can point my downstream tracker to that and then I can simply 
go check if the patch was merged or not. Currently the forward notes do 
not really work as the pointer is to a mailing list archive, and the 
discussion could have moved on since the first submission. In other 
words, it is hard to keep track of the stuff we have forwarded.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler