> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:40:45 +0800 Wu, Bryan wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 22:27 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:17:06 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 3/27/07, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:34:25AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > > > On 3/26/07, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:
> > > > > > >You should really consider the latter for getting updates merged in the
> > > > > > >future
> > > > > >
> > > > > > we're planning for this, but the short term it isnt doable for us
> > > > >
> > > > > If you think mangling patches by hand is a more effective use of time, no
> > > > > one is stopping you -- some people even prefer that. On the other hand, if
> > > > > you're struggling with an effective methodology before things are merged,
> > > > > what reason is there to suspect that things will get better afterwards?
> > > >
> > > > we have a lot of infrastructure that the SCM is part of and at the
> > > > moment, git is not a supported SCM
> > > >
> > > > i'm not saying the current system is easy, just that we cant integrate
> > > > git in the short term, so we'll continue spanking Bryan with the
> > > > overhead :/
> > >
> > > In that case, Bryan may like to know that git, mercurial (IIRC),
> > > and quilt have patchbomb tools. Also GregKH has one somewhere (he
> > > can tell you where). And Paul Jacksone has one at
> > >
http://www.speakeasy.org/~pj99/sgi/sendpatchset
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for this guide line information. I will dig into it.
> >
> > But in my experience, it is difficult to find right patch email
> > receivers, even in the MAINTAINERS file. If there are 20 patch emails,
> > we should find 20 email receivers at least and manually add them to the
> > emails. This is terrible, right? Any idea?
>
> Yes, well, we all have the honor of going thru that. There have
> been a few suggestions, but I haven't seen any that were Real Good IMO.
>
> You'll learn (quickly) where most patches go (i.e., subsystems and
> their major maintainers/contributors). Just put those people into
> your email client address book and into the patch descriptions, like
> Sam said, so that the patchbomb tools can help you out with them.
>
