[ANNOUNCE] libinput 0.4.0

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:56:55AM -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Lyude <thatslyude at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 23:40 -0700, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:
> > > Yeah Peter, I know how to apply a patch and no, I don't have any of
> > > them in my inbox, that's why I've asked what was wrong in my
> > > process ... right now I'm on Gmail in chrome and wayland-devel channel
> > > and zero attachment whatsoever.
> >
> > If you're referring to e-mail attachments that's not what he's getting
> > at. When you apply a patch off the mailing list you literally apply the
> > e-mail itself, not an attachment. Hence why you'd use git-am instead of
> > git-apply. git-am takes a saved copy of the e-mail (in mbox format),
> > extracts the inline patch for you, and applies it to the tree. It's
> > somewhat of a different process then just applying a plain old patches.
> >
> > It's a very different system then most projects nowadays use, since most
> > projects will just do pull requests and that sort of stuff :). So seeing
> > misunderstandings like this isn't at all unusual or something to be
> > disheartened about. We're not the only project to do it though, you'll
> > see that the linux kernel requires you to submit patches in this manner
> > too. It's mostly done because with organized projects like this, having
> > the ability to easily review a patch inline is necessary to discuss
> > changes in the protocol, point out typos and errors in patches, etc.
> > There are alternatives for this, for example Github has the ability to
> > allow you to comment inline on commits in pull requests, but a lot of
> > people here just prefer to use their e-mail clients and whatever text
> > editor they fancy.
> >
> 
> It's a really outdated system, especially considering Pipermail doesn't
> have an mbox link for download. My workaround is usually to hunt around for
> the archive on markmail.org or marc.info and look for the mbox download,
> but those don't seem to be tracking wayland-devel.
> 
> So yeah, if you haven't subscribed to the list, hope you like copying and
> pasting patch files and cleaning them up to get them to apply!
> 
> (Why do we subject ourselves to this terrible infrastructure?)

setting up patchwork should be an option, that provides at least the raw
patch format and it's already setup for a couple of other fdo projects.

Cheers,
   Peter