Re: Development setup (was: Org-mode release 7.01)

From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-orgmode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Development setup (was: Org-mode release 7.01)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:00:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vax7o8d.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C058B7B-F6E9-490B-9467-4A6B77B1EDAC@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:26:18 +0200")

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Sebastian,
>
> I would like to fix this as well but have not yet had the time to
> do so and I am being hampered by my limited knowledge of python
> and of the patchwork server.
>
> This will change, but I don't know how fast.
>
> - Carsten

Ok.  Good to hear!

Tanks

  Sebastian

> On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:01 AM, Sebastian Rose wrote:
>
>> Hi Carsten and John,
>>
>>
>>> Also, I need to shout out my gratitude to the increasing number of
>>> volunteers in the project.
>>>
>>> John Wiegley's patchwork server has done wonders for streamlining the
>>> process of reviewing and applying patches.  I have applied dozens of
>>> patches though this process, just in the last week.
>>>
>>> The issue tracker by David Maus has finally brought some structure
>>> into the stream of ideas and reports on this mailing list, at a
>>> moment when I was about to falter under the amount of work
>>> maintaining this project means for me.  Frankly,  right now I
>>> don't know how I would do things without David's competent and
>>> efficient help - he has effectively and silently become
>>> co-maintainer of this project.
>>
>>
>> The new technique drives me crazy.  To me, it feels frustrating compared
>> to the direct means of "the good old times".
>>
>>
>> Now, that the release is done, it's time to speak about the next decade
>> of Org mode developing ;)
>>
>>
>>
>> A minute ago I got 5 mails like this one here:
>>
>>
>> Subject:
>>
>>     "Patchwork: Patch 150 Accepted"
>>
>> Body:
>>
>>    Patch 145 (http://patchwork.newartisans.com/patch/145/) is now Accepted.
>>
>>    This relates to the following submission:
>>
>>    http://mid.gmane.org/%3C1279347713-29950-1-git-send-email-dmaus%40ictsoc.de%3E
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This current mechanism might help the maintainers as it's automated, but
>> for me it's hard to follow.
>>
>> I often delete mails suggesting patches I don't apprehend.  I then get
>> those dangling "Patchwork: ..." messages.  I simply don't want to gather
>> all those mails from this high traffic list, just to now to which
>> issue the accepted patches belong.
>>
>> I don't want to click the link(s) in those mails and wait for my browser
>> to load either.
>>
>>
>> Suggestions:
>>
>> 1.) Could the original mail (the one including the actual patch, even if
>>    modified) be attached to the autogenerated email, please?
>>    This should be at the very bottom of the mail, because of length and
>>    priority.
>>
>> 2.) And how about the subject?  The OP's subject is what I read on the
>>    patchwork server.  Why can't that be (part of) the subject of the
>>    "Accepted" message? E.g.:
>>
>>    [Orgmode] [ACCEPTED] org-capture with LISP function template
>>
>>    Maybe something that works on gmane et al, too.
>>
>> 3.) If there are annotations to the patch,  would it be possible to
>>    include that comment in that automated message?  I don't now how the
>>    patch is switched to accepted on the patchwork server.  But a simple
>>    textarea field and appropriate POST variable would do, wouldn't it?
>>
>>
>>
>> This is all information available on the patchwork server.  So I hope
>> it's just changing a few lines of code?
>>
>> I sometimes receive mails from bugzilla servers, concerning bug reports
>> I wrote years ago.  I never had that problem to understand what those
>> mails were trying to tell me.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for considering this.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>>  Sebastian
>>
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>
> - Carsten